“A child might not like the things you think they should— and that’s not an indication of their sex, or even . . . take a deep breath . . . their sexuality.”
“I was hurt knowing I couldn’t marry a woman at that time, hurt that I couldn’t have a family that looked like the only families I had seen… The idea I could ‘identify’ out of oppression, and be a straight man instead, felt liberating.” —Charlie Evans
“As an adopted nonconforming child, who was same-sex attracted, Sheng didn’t see butch lesbians reflected anywhere… not even on The L Word, a show about lesbians.
Instead, Sheng found Max.
The L Word reboot cast-member was 13 at the time…”
“That confusion impacts children…who are statistically more likely to grow up to be [LGB] adults….telling a child that he or she was born in the wrong body pathologizes ‘gender non-conforming’ behavior…”
“Many in the community are just now learning of the news and are
disappointed that (as is so often the case with lesbians and more
specifically butch lesbians) there has been no coverage of this attack in
‘LGBTQ’ media.”