For our February edition of Trans Opinions Periodically, we wanted to celebrate trans love. So we asked you to share your messages, your confessions, your hopes with us.
Included in this zine are some of these messages of trans love, friendship, and togetherness. Hugs from Active Chapter <3
“His stage name is my dead name. It fits him better—sexier, like it’s always belonged to him. I’m learning not to flinch when I hear it out loud.
In the morning, I make him coffee and we give each other head. He’s becoming a man in all the ways I never could. Neither of us have any money. God lives so close these days.” —L.X. Moon
"My partner and I started both cis identifying as high school sweethearts. It’s been a long seven years and we’re t4t now. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am so happy to be with someone who understands me and loves me as I grow. I had to go through a lot of loss coming out, but I never worried that I would lose them." —A
“Your love affected me both unpleasantly and pleasantly (you see, I always move in dialectical contradictions).” —Lily Pando
“After 2 years of being best friends on the good old internet, my girl and I decided to meet each other in person. She flew out to stay with me in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving... As friends!
Well, she left LA as my girlfriend. It took two days of her being with me for me to realize I was madly in love with everything about her.
It feels at times like we grew up together, and she has been my closest person since the day I started medically transitioning. I couldn't ask for someone better to travel through life with!” —Oliver June Landers
My boyfriend and I have been together for 7 years as of last week! We were high school sweethearts, next door neighbors, and in theatre together. We met during a show, he fell in love with my singing, and we got together shortly after! We’ve supported each other through our transitions, moved to NYC, and built a life together. I’m so grateful to have my soulmate and best friend by my side! I LOVE being t4t, there is truly nothing like it. Happy Valentine’s day t4t baddies! —Mike Kinsey (he/him)
“My boyfriend is so beautiful and smart and nice. He got me a little “I-love-you” bear in a basket for Valentine’s Day! He was running to the train to meet me for a movie and I love you bear jr. fell out of the basket! So if you’re reading this, my address is: [——]” —Anon
“these are the best things your presence has moved me to write. i’ve told you a lot, maybe one day it’ll feel right to tell you the rest.
if every last week has been a century, at least i got to spend a few years with you.
you make me feel the same thing poets have struggled to put into words for thousands of years. i now know why language fails us.
if it were us sitting together, at the end of time, with infinity on our hands. i think we’d talk so deeply we’d reinvent the stars.” —Anon
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