Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.
Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.
I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.
I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.
We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.
I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.
Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.
From the moment I could express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a boy who liked girly things - I knew I was a girl.
I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.
I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.
GLAAD has so much information and outlets about LGBTQ people and some of the issues we face and who we are.
Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.
I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.
Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.
I definitely think it's important to share my process when it comes to the bottom surgery, because that information really isn't out there.
I definitely think when I'm feeling super down or having tantrums or not able to participate in any activities, I have to control myself. I have to tell myself, 'No, focus, focus, focus, do this, do this, do this.' Instead of shutting down, I encourage myself to think positively and move towards the light.
Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.
I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.
In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.
I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.
