“I always thought, if I weren’t a trans man, I’d be a butch lesbian.”

Autostraddle-exclusive insights into our nonbinary readers!

Your story begins with letting go of the way your body looked before. Your body does not exist primarily to be seen. Here are some thoughts and some practical resources about how to move forward and learn to be comfortable in your own skin.

“I’m finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I’ve met people who say, “I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out.” My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.”

Joanne Rowling and I might have more in common than she thinks.

We’ve got tips, personal essays (the bad and the good), roundtables, advice, and everything you need to come out as a lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans or whatever YOUR TRUTH may be.

Here are three completely undeniable and incredibly depressing facts about women, executive political power, and glass ceilings — and cliffs! — around the world.

Where “Transparent” succeeds in telling a trans story that’s largely focused on how cis people relate to and see trans people, “This is Me” goes one step further and shows trans people talking to other trans people about their lives and experiences.

It will take time. It will take a lot of patience. It will be worth it.

The fact that you’re working through all this now doesn’t say anything negative about you or the way you moved through life for the past 24 years. What you did then was valid, and what you’re doing now is valid.

I talked with the flat-out amazing Laverne Cox about everything from Emmy reactions to deconstructing transgender tropes in a John Legend video to dealing with intersections of racism and transmisogyny. It was awesome.

Out actress Haviland Stillwell on what Jodie Foster’s coming out means to a gay girl who grew up Before Ellen and is now witnessing a rapidly-evolving climate of outness for gays in Hollywood.

Trans Day of Visibility is a time when we take notice of all the amazing trans people around us. Here are 15 ways you can let them know that you care about them and support them.

On the journey from there to here.

Someone thinks Margaret Cho outed John Travolta, Fastrack thinks kids should come out, Ángeles Álvarez thinks lesbian politicians should come out, and now that Jason Collins is out, Andy West thinks everyone should come out.

The 2013 Trans 100 is a BIG DEAL and we wanted to give you a closer look at the amazing trans* women featured on the list, thus this epic compilation of inspirational people relevant to your interests.

They have feminists shaking their heads, no research to back themselves up, and the full support and funding of the government.

In which a boycott of Girl Scout cookies is a boycott of equality.

As both the subject and filmmaker of the documentary ‘She’s A Boy l Knew,’ Gwen Haworth takes gender expression to a whole new level.