“I went through a couple of years of ‘Yes-I-am, no-I’m-not, Omigod, that’s gross.’ To the point where when I was eighteen, I really sat down with myself and said, ‘I can’t really ignore this anymore. This is really who I am.’ ” This back-and-forth is a common experience of trans influencers. The way many gurus like Chase explain it, the trans identity is more the handsome stranger they learn to love than the stalker they’re desperate to escape.
