This Is How It Always Is

“maybe she—and you and I—need to learn to live in a world that refuses to accept a person with a beard who goes by ‘she' and wears a skirt and be happy anyway.”“How?”“How what?”“How do we learn to live in that world and be happy anyway?”

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About how a family, protecting their trans kid, is owned by their secret. It's about acceptance, but also about the ways society tells us it's wrong for a boy to wear dresses just like it's wrong for a girl to be in sports. It's maddening, frustrating, and sad.