In recent years, much of the political friction surrounding LGBTQ+ rights has shifted specifically toward trans-inclusive healthcare and sports.

To support the transgender community is to support the very idea that liberation means freedom for everyone —not just those who fit neatly into a box.

LGBTQ culture, at its best, is a culture of radical honesty—of rejecting society’s boxes and building new ones. There is no more radical act than a trans person living openly and joyfully in a world that often wishes they wouldn’t.

Eli laughed before he meant to. It came out cracked and small. “Is it that obvious?”