She paused, letting the weight of those two words settle. “That was my first lesson. The LGBTQ culture I found wasn’t just about pride parades or flags. It was a lifeboat. Gay men who’d been disowned by their families, lesbians who’d lost their jobs, a bisexual teenager who slept on a park bench—they all made space for me. They taught me how to change my legal name. They taught me how to survive.”
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She looked at Alex. “You belong. Not because you fit into a neat box, but because our culture is a mosaic. And a mosaic without its trans pieces is just a pile of broken glass.” She paused, letting the weight of those two words settle