I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy's body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home.

It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.

I think a lot of people are very interested in why other people are trans or why people are gay.

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