Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.