"Partly because I didn't know I had to, and partly because my transness belonged to me. Why did I have to share this aspect of myself with people in a way that granted them the power to accept or reject me?"
"What I was doing was practicing the art of inviting in, the new alternative to coming out. It hasn't been easy to navigate this new world as an adult, but I'm still happy I took my time."
"I didn't discover the language for the discomfort I felt in my body until my freshman year of high school. During a bus ride on my way home, a friend of mine told me about a trans girl...I had never heard the term 'trans' before, so I hopped onto the web later that day to read all about it."
"The only time I ever came out was to my family the year of my 18th birthday. When I told each of them individually that I was trans, they all..."
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