> Even with marriage equality and other progress, I do not think the modern transgender rights movement would have been at all possible without the internet. T

> Even with marriage equality and other progress, I do not think the modern transgender rights movement would have been at all possible without the internet. This is what kills me, because it's absolutely right. I'm trans and my people are all I have. I would love to have just a dumbphone, but being alone again, searching desperately for anyone who gets it, whom I can see and know knows me --- that is soul-rendingly painful. We are a diaspora connected by wires and lights on a screen. The knowledge that I'm not alone, I'm not crazy, I'm not broken saved my life. I can't go back now.