Everyone’s journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I’ve know that I’m transgender my entire life. Sarah McBride Read Quote
I think it’s really difficult for folks that aren’t transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness. Sarah McBride Read Quote
Being an American is an action; it’s an ideal to strive for. It’s being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of ‘We the people.’ Sarah McBride Read Quote
When the work you’re doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments. Sarah McBride Read Quote
Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters. Sarah McBride Read Quote
The Internet has been great for the LGBT community. I know many older transgender people who say, ‘I didn’t know there was a single person like me until I was 40.’ I can’t imagine growing up in my teenage years without access to that information. Sarah McBride Read Quote
We can celebrate the speed at which LGBT equality has progressed, but we also have to acknowledge that it wasn’t fast enough, because too many people didn’t get to experience it. We can never be too impatient. Sarah McBride Read Quote
I met my future husband Andy fighting for trans equality, and we fell in love. A couple of months after we started dating, Andy was diagnosed with cancer, and despite getting a clean bill of health several months later, eventually his cancer came back, and it was terminal. Sarah McBride Read Quote
