My Five Years of Pride

Musings on what I’ve learned in the last 1825 days since coming out trans

Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash

I came out about my trans identity around this time in 2017. It was nearing the end of Pride month and I was living in New York with my ex-boyfriend in a small apartment in Astoria. We’ll call him Phil. We had a tumultuous relationship, founded upon mutual anxiety and a proclivity for cannabis products…