She helps run a needle exchange in the Tenderloin called San Francisco Drug Users’ Union. Outside of work she mostly just waits for Billi Moon to develop a clothing line so she can accessorize better for her other full-time job, her King Janesta’s arm candy at social events. When she first to landed in the…
Stephen
Whenever I tried to empathize with transgender people, my mind always went to the only place it’d been taught to go: drag queens. I barely knew the difference between “transvestite” and “transgender”, hearing the two words used interchangeably. So I would picture myself in a male body and try to think how wrong that would…
Emilia
Soy Trans y cuando sea grande quiero hacer inventos, aunque la sociedad diga que solo lo pueden hacer los hombres. Voy a hacer cosas maravillosas con inventos. Protegeré el mundo con ellos. Si hay un niñe trans que sus papás lo tratan mal, que esperen que alguien les pregunte si hay niñes trans y que…
Jasper
I’ve known I wasn’t a girl for as long as I can remember. I always felt like a boy who unfortunately had a girl’s body and was forced to be “a girl”, whatever that means. Through drag, theatre and life I have been able to piece together the big queer jigsaw puzzle that is Jasper…
Jessica
Why should people have to judge people when they are not sure about themselves? Myself, I think gender and pronouns are the most important things you can approach someone with, like instead of saying ‘sir’ or ‘ma’am’, just say ‘hello’, how is your day?” instead of assuming what someone’s pronouns or gender are. I was…
Sam Dylan Finch
A big part of my transition has been confronting this sense that I was “too much” for this world. Too loud. Too emotional. Too queer. Too sensitive. Too neurotic. I have carried this kind of heaviness my whole life, and this compulsion to make myself as small as possible has led me to some dark…
Aleckzander Anthony Martisauskad
Live for you and who you want to be. Always have a willing and open heart Transgender man, He/Him Age : 33 Instagram
Constance
After decades of hating my body in particular and my life in general, I’m learning to love myself even as I strive to change my body. I can honestly say my depression and anxiety really got going at about the start of puberty. Well, the first time I went through puberty. I started hormone replacement…
Charlie
I have found a lot of unexpected parallels in how I’m treated as a transgender man, as a young cancer patient, and as someone who is disfigured. For one, I am often called brave for existing. My life is applauded for what other people could not imagine doing themselves – as if I, funnily enough,…
Jenny
I’ve been working as a property manager in Sonoma County for the past five years. It feels amazing to be living my true identity! I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me and my family! I will not be defined by my gender. I will be defined by the quality of my…