Identity Is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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I had only come out as trans a couple of years earlier. I’d recently moved from a small town to a larger city, and I was sick of waiting. It was time for me to finally plug into the community. Meeting another openly trans person sent me over the moon. Here was someone I could actually connect with! My cisgender friends were nice, but they didn’t really understand. “Sympathetic but confused” was as good as they could…