Closing out #TDoV with a personal post about how important visibility has been to my transition and how I strive to be visible for others.
I would not be where I am in my transition and in my life if it were not for the visible examples of so many of my trans siblings … whether it is seeing trans actors such as Laverne Cox on the screen, following trans people on (at first) Twitter and then here or meeting each other in person, all were necessary reassurances that I was not unique and alone.
Whatever I knew of transgender people before my egg cracked, was 90% hypothetical. Transgender people existed (in theory) but I never had (knowingly) met a trans person. All my suppressed questions and issues with gender felt wrong or abnormal and something only I was facing.
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