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Before responding with “That’s not my experience,” try putting yourself in the other person’s shoes.

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Going through a gender transition taught me so much, and I am a better person for it.

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Because I am eager to make my own money, build a life, and support myself, I am “trying to prove something”. If I were a man, I would simply be surviving.

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The only person you need to ask if you want to marry me is me. That’s it.

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It makes me want to be plain, and blend in. 

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Just say yes.

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As a Black, dark-skinned woman, I’ve had to repeat this practice of forgiveness forcefully over my lifetime.

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I don’t like to release the energy I hold dear on things that don’t deserve said energy. I like to save it for when it matters most.

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You sound like a toddler throwing a tantrum. Gimme, gimme, gimme! I am not your mother.

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At 25, I was drugged, and you do the math.