Michelle Hendley is a transgender actress, perhaps best known for her role in the movie Boy Meets Girl (which you should seriously watch). She is young and sometimes silly as she documents life through her YouTube channel. But she is also incredibly intelligent and has important things to say in this latest installment.
I am so thrilled for Caitlyn Jenner, and was very moved by what she revealed in her interview with Diane Sawyer. The fact that we have finally come to a time and place where sufficiently safe and accept to reveal this part of her life is wonderful and I'm happy that Caitlyn can now live her authentic life.
But I think the most important thing about Caitlyn's coming-out is the greater awareness that it will bring to transgender issues. This matters because the more we are understood - he more human we become - the less inclined society will be to discriminate against us, to marginalize us, to assault us, and to murder us.
The transgender community will welcome Caitlyn with open arms. But her story is far from the norm. Perhaps the visibility that she gaining will in turn bring attention to the lives of Leelah Alcorn, Trya Hunter, Brandon Teena, Gwen Araujo, and the countless other tran- lives lost to intolerance.
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