“I always catch myself staring at my children. I can’t help it. I never thought much about it. Until today.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“I always catch myself staring at my children. I can’t help it. I never thought much about it. Until today.”
“‘Oh my God. He’s out. He’s here.’ They put my gooey little man on my chest. ‘Is everything okay?’ My heart sunk. ‘There’s something different about the baby’s foot, too.’ The doctor unwrapped a fin, and then a flipper.”
“I woke up in a white room by myself. ‘A few minutes later, you’d be dead.’ I looked down at my stomach and was very confused about the ladder-like line of staples holding my entire abdomen together.”
“My dad told me, ‘I tried to bring you a birthday cake EVERY YEAR.’ I decided I didn’t want to miss any more time without him.”
“‘How is this even the same girl?’ I wish I could remember the last time she said ‘mama.’ If I knew I may never hear it again, I would’ve recorded it to play whenever I needed the reminder.”
“They treat us like it’s contagious. But being trans is such a GORGEOUS thing.”
“‘Get here as soon as possible. I don’t think she’s going to make it.’ My heart stopped three times before they froze my body.”
“We have to teach our children to be strong in their identity, so they do not lose themselves in the identity of others.”
“I was a caged bird in my small town with my religious mother, and now I was free, discovering my full potential. I realized Christianity and sexuality do not need to fight each other. They can live peacefully.”
“I realized maybe it wasn’t going to be a cakewalk after all. I may just have to fight for this.”