like the kind of thing where I couldn’t look away,” she said. It wasn’t only the social justice that intrigued her, but the trans testimonials. “People’s individual stories of like why they identify as trans and their struggles. And it was stuff like, ‘Oh, I hate my boobs, I hate my body, I hate everything.’ ” Helena binge-watched videos of trans testimonials and began to strongly empathize with the people in them. She soon realized that her views were converging with theirs. “The more I got into it, the more prominent these feelings were of not being a girl.” At first, she didn’t believe she
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