“The more our basic right to exist is called into question... the more harassment we face... the more tense and divided our communities can become. In order to access healthcare, seek civil rights, and push back against transphobic rhetoric from all of the political spectrum, transgender people are required to speak with certainty and simplicity about our experiences with gender. People who don't fit these narratives within the trans community are easily shunned. And why not? The stakes are too high for us to be wrong.”