There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality.

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.