"And yet here was this person like me murdered by ignorance, by prejudice, murdered by intolerance. It seemed in direct inverse proportion to the kind of acceptance my, of my family. Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that would prove that the world is different from the way that they want to see it.

Invisibility is indivisible from visibility.

For the transgender this is not simply a philosophical conundrum.

It can be the difference between life and death."