A beautiful expanse
Exploring the spectrum of gender identities MELISSA WHITLER | NBCU Fellow Melissa@DallasVoice.com What it means to be transgender has been discussed a lot in American society, yet so often actual trans voices have been and are being left out of the conversation.
Many — including within the LGBTQ community — hold internal biases against gender nonconformity. Yet everyone has a gender identity, and being able to comfortably explore it adds so much richness to life.
For many people, their understanding of a person being transgender means that a person identifies with the “opposite” gender than the one they were assigned at birth.
The transgender experience, in their understanding, follows a path of transitioning from one gender to another after coming out.
