I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.
We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.
They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!
I've faced worse things in my life than prison
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