Speaking about how race has shaped her experience of being trans, Robyn says a key problem is that she feels she fights bigotry on both fronts, having to deal with transphobia in her family’s community and racist assumptions within the trans community from which she seeks support. ‘I have tried really hard to socialize with trans groups, and it’s super white; to the point almost where it feels intentional. It’s really difficult to feel like I finally found my people, they understand what I’m going through. And then you see that they’re all white and they understand such a small part of what I
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