so much endless warmth and congrats to you, op and thank you for doing this! <3
i'm queer and trans and was actually just talking with my partner (also queer and trans) about how it's sometimes still hard to talk about gender stuff in a public sphere in a much different way than we do queerness. we've both known about our identities for quite some time and are vocal people about human rights issues, but this is something we still find ourselves holding back from addressing fully in certain moments. it's not the first time we've talked about this and it won't be the last, but what i find comforting, is that we do talk about it. that trans experiences echo boldly and inspire beautiful growth.
hoping we will all continue to steadily roll on past that unfortunate uncomfort, though, past that unease or feeling of lack of welcome and stretch into our wonderful gender euphoric selves. it helps to share, when we feel safe. it helps to talk about all the complicated feelings around the overlap of identities and spaces and experiences. it helps to have a community and to hold kindness always, warm in our hearts and whenever we can - extend it outwards with gentle hands. right now particularly, and always.
that's overly poetic, lol. i guess what i mean to say is that coming out feels like it never ends sometimes, but sometimes that feels like actually the most amazing thing, like it's not other people discovering new things about us - but us discovering ourselves. how powerful, that. how absolutely brilliant, to be trans.
