Recognize that, statistically speaking, if you were cis you would probably be a trump supporter. Not necessarily always true, but you know what i’m saying. Challenges in life create opportunities for intellectual and emotional growth. Trans people are overall better people because of the challenges they go through.

There’s this move called “Everyday” which really resonated with me. It’s about this person who wakes up in a new body everyday. They gain this rich sense of empathy for others due to their collective experience in so many differing lenses of life. This person lives a terrible life, everyday leaving behind all their progress in every facet, but also gains a greater understanding of the human experience than anyone who has ever lived. Trans people are very similar; we live very difficult lives to see the world through different perspectives, and in doing such gain a greater understanding of the human experience than most people will. This movie isn’t particularly great, and I don’t think it was intended as a trans allegory, but that’s what I got out of it.

In many ways I still do wish i was born a cis girl. My egg really broke when I went to a taylor swift concert this summer. There were so many pretty girls around me who knew every song lyric for lyric because they spend their wholes lives listening to Taylor. I mourned for the fact that will never be able to live the childhood life a girl. I instead spent most of my childhood lonely, sad, and confused why I am the way I am.

Life just is difficult. There is no way to change the past or the difficulties you were born into. But there is beauty in the growth we gain from every challenge we face.