Maureen Kline

And for the rest of us: let us ask ourselves what we are really afraid of. Could it be that we are afraid of our own multicolored humanity?

Please don’t go away now. Please just be you. Show us your beauty, your human perfections and imperfections. Keep your focus on thriving, beyond surviving.
Show the rest of us that we don’t belong in boxes either, but can stretch our arms and express the full spectrum of humanity that we are, too.

I know that this feels like a time to go into hiding, as a fearful frenzy sweeps the country and tries to stamp out who you are. You have had to be in hiding for hundreds of years, and have only recently dared to step out into the light. …

It was settled by starving people ready to work hard for a better life. The American experience is supposed to be about courage, and you, dear trans people, are today’s pioneers. …

Is the American experience supposed to be about conforming? I will tell you that it’s not.
From the European perspective, this country was settled by religious outcasts, brave people who crossed an ocean in order to be the authentic versions of themselves they so fervently believed in. …

Very few of you are professional athletes, although many other athletes don’t fit into the narrowest definitions of “female,” and “male.” These athletes are showing us that there is a beautiful variety of combinations of organs, chromosomes, hormones, and manifestations of humanity. A spectrum. …

piece together some semblance of peace, allow yourself to step out of a boxed-in identity that isn’t you, into a more spacious room where you can be you. Taking off a costume that’s too small and stifling, and breathing the air everyone else likes to breathe: freedom. …

Dear Trans People,
I don’t know why people are afraid of you. I know you as mostly introverts, shy people trying to find your way from bleak, suicidal dysphoria to a place where you can quietly take up your identity, …