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Ten-year-olds don’t know a lot, but they know that they don’t want to be a joke. Looking at my mom, that realization sank in. I’m going to have to tell her this someday, and she is going to be so disappointed.
her love and support made the impossible finally seem possible. Maybe my world won’t fall apart.
Language, too, is a social construct, but one that expresses very real things.
when we are faced with issues we haven’t yet thought about or interacted with, we often look to one another for how we should respond. Our behavior models for others the acceptable reaction;
an implicit and negative statement about your beauty.
I can see the wheels turning in their heads as they reconstruct an image of me, seeing me not in the present but in the past.
“When you ask transgender people to allow a conversation to occur before you grant us equal rights, you are asking people to watch their one life pass by without dignity and respect,” I said. “The question has been called, Representative.
Legislators couldn’t understand the issue, but when they spoke to their kids or grandkids, they understood that there was a clear side to be on.
I looked around and realized that this was everything I thought I had given up when I came out.
that simple but radical question: “What’s your favorite part about being transgender?”
Sylvia Rivera was seventeen years old when she helped launch the Stonewall Riot. Marsha P. Johnson was twenty-three
