Laverne Cox

And I think like, yeah, I don't know if I can be able to read excerpts from this book again.

We'll see.

I'm just, I'm so pissed.

I'm so angry and I'm so hurt and I'm so...

And it's – there's also, like, the anger of all the kids that I've met who are trans or queer who are still experiencing this.

And the anger of knowing that –

in states that have passed anti-trans laws, that the percentage of bullying has skyrocketed in those states.

You hear a lot of stories.

A lot of stories, but those are statistics.

Those are the anecdotes, but those are the stats from the Trevor Project.

Because to manufacture the consent to pass anti-trans laws that would ban gender-affirming care for kids and

And the menace of trans girls in sports, all like two of them.

There's the rhetorical piece that happens in the media that is dehumanizing and stigmatizing trans people.

And it creates a permission structure if like your, you know, governor and your state legislators are doing, if your, you know, your teachers and, you know, pundits on TV are doing it, then like, of course, kids are emboldened to do it.

and that makes me so angry.

And, you know, it's like the sadness is like, you know, it's just the loneliness, and I couldn't process it fully as a child, and I don't know.

It just really sucked.

This was so... It was torture to write this, and the reason I wrote it is to...

To tell the truth, I just don't think it makes any sense to write a book and to clean stuff up and to not be honest and not be raw.

But it's just like, wow.