There is a unique loneliness in being a trans person who is welcomed into the political umbrella of LGBTQ, but rejected from the social spaces. Imagine walking into a gay bar—historically the safest place for gender nonconformity—only to be misgendered by the drag queen at the door, or told the bathroom is "for women only."
So to my trans siblings reading this: You belong here. You always have. The riots, the ballrooms, the clinics, the chat rooms—they all exist because someone like you refused to disappear. ashemale solo
It means watching a lesbian couple throw a baby shower for a trans woman who just started estrogen and is experiencing "second puberty." There is a unique loneliness in being a