I feel, so often, that I have lost too many years by not having come out as transgender earlier in my life, yet the past also feels brief and momentary, the present ever-present. Everything becomes a moment.

The world feels like it has gotten at once bigger and smaller, with all these transitions.

Last night North Carolina's legislators held a special session in order to prohibit local governments from passing anti-discrimination laws, particularly targeting an ordinance in Charlotte that would have allowed trans people to use public restrooms corresponding to their gender.

This is how things used to be: you opened your mouth or you kept it shut. If you spoke up, there were risks.

Afterwards I understood that no matter what I wrote or felt about it, it ends up sounding like propaganda to someone.