You came out to your wife as a trans lesbian and the more you fully embrace your queerness, the more it hurts that your wife can’t. Also; another reader is…
The film dives into familiar terrain to anyone queer with a Latin family, from capitalism and public transit to familial obligation and gender/sexuality.
Here again, we have a group of far-right losers performing legislative tyranny simply because they believe in a bogeyman that doesn’t and has never existed.
The argument that trans-exclusion keeps athletics “honest and fair” is just another boogeyman thrown up to make trans erasure from public life easier and quicker.
I have no delusions that my grandparents would have understood or condoned my transness, but in the wake of their deaths, I found myself longing for their patient non-judgement.
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