What’s The Power of Trans Joy? with Adri Pèrez and Chase Strangio of the ACLU
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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Transgender People and Love and Support for Transcenter People
i came out when i was 17 years old and went to an ald girls school. I saw the people in my life grapple with what it meant for them to love me knowing that i was now transgender. My best friend was the most catholic person i knew at that time, and she and her family have been the biggest supports in my life. And they had to rewrite their entire understanding of their faith that they had held for their entire lives. They did that to insure that transgenter people and love and support for transcenter people fit within that framework. That is why i exist so openly and so publicly as a trans person.
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