Griffin Maxwell Brooks

It's like suffocating.

Yeah.

Well, it's like it's this argument that I talk about, like trans people and like expression, like the oh, like, like.

Sometimes I feel like people have to be stealth or they have to be not visibly queer in order to conserve their space.

And people don't understand just how harming that is.

That it's not like, oh, this stinks.

I couldn't wear the outfit I wanted to wear.

It is like you look in the mirror and you see something that isn't you.

Statistically, it's life or death for a lot of people.

Yes, absolutely.

I think the people that are able to navigate it...

like, can tell you that, like, it is still, like, it's, like, a gut-wrenching experience to, like, be someone that you're not, you know?

It sucks.

And it's a reality for so many people, too, especially for like, I don't know.

Like, people who are trans in, like, a very visible way.

Or if you're, like, are trans and you're, like, still along, like, you know, the way in your transition to a point where, like, whether or not you pass is, like, a whole, like, conversation to have.

Yeah.

That has nuance and, like, kind of varies from, like, where you are and who you're around.

But, like, it is, like...

It's life or death for people in a lot of ways.