For many trans people, particularly trans men, the crisis created a conflicted experience. On one hand, trans women were often lumped in with gay men in HIV statistics (due to outdated tracking methods) and faced similar medical discrimination. On the other, trans men found themselves invisible in "lesbian" circles if they transitioned, while trans women were often excluded from "gay male" spaces they had helped create.
Reduce trans people to suffering and you replicate the worst of the media's framing. Trans joy—in a new haircut, in a voice drop from testosterone, in a legal name change—is a revolutionary act. Share it. Amplify it. freeshemale and girl