I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

Many in the trans community are fed up with L.G.B.T. organizations that continue to erase trans identity or just give lip service to trans issues. We need our cisgender allies - gay and straight - to treat transgender lives as if they matter, and trans people need multiple seats at the tables in the organizations that say they're interested in L.G.B.T. equality; this absence has been painful since Stonewall.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'