Kimberly Reid

I thought that there would be rejection there and there wasn't.

I had sort of set up

this, this barrier that wasn't really there.

And the fact that that barrier got broken with my father's death, and then the subsequent reunification with my brother that happens.

I'm just so glad that that happened.

Because if it hadn't, and if you know, we hadn't kind of documented that and told those stories.

I don't know.

that I ever would have figured it out.

And there's a lot of people that don't, and I think that that's sad.

There's a flip side to all of that.

I think what happens to me is, in the story that I tell for The Moth, is a really beautiful story of

reunification and love.

And it's, you know, still warms my heart to think of it that way.

That's not everybody's story.

I think it's important to tell my story and to tell stories of trans joy.

and love and just the fact that we're just kind of like everybody else, as boring as everyone else.

And I mentioned earlier that we've come a long way in the way that our society accepts LGB and especially T folks.

But there's a flip side to that, and that's that there's been more talk about trans folks in our society, but that also comes with kind of a dark underbelly of reaction and blowback and especially violence against trans folks.

And that's an important thing to acknowledge as we take in these stories of, you know, how far we've come.

It's also creating a lot of blowback in certain sectors of our society.