With trans folks, we have a lot of people accusing us of just playing dress up for whatever reasons, and that's just not true.
Saying it now sounds obvious, but that can be really hard to remember when you're a trans kid who feels like your world's been turned upside down. Just having someone to see in the media is so empowering and validating.
I'm so glad that all the work that my family and I are doing is yielding positive results and making actual change!
This entire issue of transgender people posing a kind of threat to cisgender women in bathrooms is made up. We are just like everybody else - we go into the bathroom, we keep our heads down, we don't look at anybody.
I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
