How Anyone Can Help Trans People In Their Lives, Written From The Perspective of a Trans Man
Telling our stories and having our voices heard brings into focus our lives and our culture. It centers our personhood rather than our pain.
Topic: lgbtqia+
Telling our stories and having our voices heard brings into focus our lives and our culture. It centers our personhood rather than our pain.
Living authentically and freely was my only option if I wanted to stay alive.
I can be a man. I am a man, even if nobody else sees it.
There’s something powerful about coming out to yourself. There’s something powerful about finally knowing who you are.
There are far more people in this world on your side wanting you to know and be yourself.
I’m attracted to men. That single sentence has been a source of anxiety and depression for a large part of my life.
All the time spent thinking I was half-this and half-that and yet not enough of either, when in reality, I am a whole person whose identity is not half-anything.
No one may know exactly how it all feels, but it’s my story to tell, my words to write down, and perhaps one day someone else might look at this and feel less alone.
If I could go back and talk to my younger self who buried her queerness, who felt so much pain and distress over who she was, I would tell her it’s okay to be confused.
you question your worth as you attend therapy while your friends have slumber parties.
Depression told me I wasn’t enough, it told me I was a burden, it told me that I wasn’t worthy of love.
No matter what I did, there was a lingering feeling that something about who I was, wasn’t OK.
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