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.

Visibility is not equality.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

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.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

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

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.