Transgender Day of Remembrance today, a day we as the community come together to honor those we lost to anti-transgender violence, an overwhelming sense of hopelessness fills my soul.I knew I was transgender at a young age.
I didn’t have the words to articulate it at the time, but my actions and expressions said it all. At the age of 15, I “came out“ and at the age of 19, I left my childhood home to transition.
I haven’t been a stranger to violence along the journey and have experienced things that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. In 2014, I was raped at gunpoint — a moment I thought I was going to lose my life.
I begged for him to stop as he shouted, “I’ll shoot up this f***** room if you don’t hold still.” I lay on the bed, frozen with fear, as.