#trans quote

"And when I think of my future, and what I really want for myself in the years ahead, the only real thing that matters to me is that I be able to dress and pass as a male. When people ask me at work “What do you want for yourself in the future?”, how can I tell them that I just want to be a man?"

Remember this, whoever you are, however you are, you are equally valid, equally justified, and equally beautiful.

I would like them to understand that we are people. We’re human beings, and this is a human life. This is reality for us, and all we ask for is acceptance and validation for what we say that we are. It’s a basic human right.

It's not the choice to be a man, it's the choice to accept that not being one feels truly and deeply wrong.

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...