Status Updates From To Survive on This Shore: P...

"Our identities are all defined through our relationships with others," (159) I disagree with this

"'...and because many of them are shunned by their families and find their family in friends, who often age alongside them, they don't necessarily have the full support they need to age well.'" (150) I'm an idiot but I'd never thought about the age/generational disparity in found family being mostly friends unless you actively cultivate age diversity in friendships. Which, writing that sounds ickier than it is

"'By the time I had a conversation with a professional, I was an adult. This doctor asked me if I was
"truly" trans. And my response was, "Why are you asking me that? Because I don't fit some criteria in your book?" It bothered me that somebody who wasn't trans had criteria for someone who is trans, to measure my transness.
All I knew was that I had a sense of myself, and it was based on my lived reality.'" (138)

"'And I was like, "Oh my God, am I dying?" and she said, "No, you're not dying, I just want to run a karyotype." So then, of course, like everybody, you run home, you get on Web MD, and... I gave myself so many diseases!!!'" (112)