djwfyi quoted In Transit by Dianna E. Anderson
For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a …
This is one of the reasons representation of differently gendered or ungendered bodies is so deeply important: seeing ourselves reflected in the public not only gives us courage to be who we are, but it also asserts for us that it is right and normal and OK for us to feel joy. And it's OK for us to want that, to want to live a life free and open and joyous.
— In Transit by Dianna E. Anderson, Emily Vanderwerff (Page 98)
It's okay for every human to live. To be joyful. How devastating that we deprive so many of the belief and right to such.