I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

Visibility is not equality.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

Investigative journalism and reporting has become much more dangerous. This is especially true for journalists and sources in National Security - but it has been getting pretty bad for beat reporters and small outlets doing local reporting, too.

I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.