Warning: This introduction section contains statistics and information that might be triggering to transgender people. Please skip it if you need to.
In the past couple years, transgender people have experienced more positive media exposure than ever before. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is the first transgender person to win a Golden Globe.
Elliot Page is releasing a memoir, Pageboy. Many awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway productions have gotten rid of gendered categories.
With a lot positive trans stories hitting the mainstream media regularly, it’s easy to forget the lived struggles that trans people face daily.