Status Updates From Transitions: Our Stories of...

“We are talking about all the laws that stop us from living our lives. We are talking about marriage and adoption and love and names, and . . . my heart is swollen with it all . . . I was not told that trans people were allowed such things” (Tash Oakes-Monger, 15-16).

“I fall in love with another trans person, and they touch my scars like they are nothing and everything at the same time. They look at me and they see me, and it is the greatest gift of them all” (Tash Oakes-Monger, 15).

“We, as trans, non-binary, and gender fluid people, know that our stories are often portrayed as negative, painful, or heartbreaking. That might be what we carry every day but it isn’t our lives every day. We are more than that . . . We are ordinary, average, and sometimes quite clumsy” (Sabah Choudrey, 7-8).

"There's more to me than the violence inflicted upon me by the people and structures of this world."

My heart is so Full.