“They were taking his device and hiding it, and when the teacher wasn’t looking, they’d push him down. I was floored.”
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“They were taking his device and hiding it, and when the teacher wasn’t looking, they’d push him down. I was floored.”
“’Goodnight. LOVE YOU.’ A faint ‘love you’ left my mom’s lips back to me.”
“‘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.”
“He tried to grab my hand and say, ‘Make it end now, please.’ Once the hospital bed arrived, he never left it again. I lived and died a thousand times. What many had experienced in a lifetime together, I got condensed into 5 years.”
“Because my cycle is fairly moderate, I decided to give free bleeding a try.”
“I was 100% sure it was a melanoma. I looked at it every day, thinking what treatment would be like.”
“‘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.”
“Learn what you don’t know, and use the resources trans people make and share.”