Why’re you pretending to be a boy? I stare at the message. There’s a whoosh that goes through me, and I can feel my emotions become still as numbness prickles. Besides the gallery, I’ve never really had to experience this kind of hate for who I am before—not directly. I always see it on the news. The ways the government is trying to erase me, the ways politicians try to pretend transgender people don’t exist, even though we do exist, and always have, and always will. I see the articles, the stories about transgender people being refused health care, students like me bullied and forced into the
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