“i must say i prefer to date other genderqueer or gender nonconforming individuals. The thing is there’s this extremely notion that is limited of we’re designed to date.

plenty of it really is that people don’t celebrate trans love—or love between trans individuals. We concentrate on the males whom date trans ladies, the ladies whom date trans males, or even the cis those who date trans individuals. We hold them to a really high regard, ‘Oh, these individuals love us—even though we have been trans,’ once we should be stating that trans individuals loving other trans individuals is radical by itself. We’re hardly expected to love ourselves, aside from one another.”

Jessika Gonzalez, Phoenix, Ariz.Nurse practitioner, 28Trans woman, she/her

On being told that she’s not “girlfriend material”:

“Dating anywhere in any city and any suggest that I’ve lived in has been the exact same. (more…)

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