“The imperative to get over it is the imperative to erase yourself, to take your beating, fallible human heart and crush it. To taker your pulsating, bedazzled, gorgeous identity and betray it. To take your glittering, shimmering, divine trauma and throw it in the trash. I will never get over the fact that gender nonconforming people have been the target of incredible violence, marginalization, isolation, and neglect throughout much of the past century. I will never get over it because it is my history, and those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.”