A decade ago, I had a rare opportunity. Rushed onto a flight in the middle of the week, I made my way to Washington, D.C. I had been asked, quite at the last moment, to go to the White House to discuss transgender issues.
I felt woefully unprepared as I hurriedly wrote out a few pages of notes covering stories I wanted to discuss before heading over to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House.
There, I had the opportunity to address representatives of the Obama administration specifically on issues of anti-transgender violence.
It was both daunting and deeply flattering to have the opportunity to sit at the center of a large table, surrounded by individuals representing the administration — with photos of the