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by Chelsea Manning

For me, at least, being trans is less about being a woman trapped in a man’s body than about the innate incoherence between the person I felt myself to be and the one the world wanted me to be.

Trolling gives you a human connection. Even though it’s a negative response, it’s still a connection. You’re yelling angrily into the void, but instead of hearing an echo, someone yells back. It’s acknowledgment of your existence, your humanity.

This was my first inkling that the moral arc of the universe doesn’t necessarily bend toward justice. That instead, there is a constant and active struggle. And regardless of my changing understanding of how history happens, for the first time I truly understood that the fundamental promises of this society—liberty and justice for all—are just words, unless they are supported by meaningful values and concrete actions.