Trans Love Is Love: On Relationships with Transgender People

Laverne Cox once famously said, “Loving trans people is a revolutionary act.” The couples in this video understand what that means incredibly well. Each of these couples talks about how important their partner is to them. They open up about the things they’ve learned, and how much they’ve grown and changed over the course of their relationships.

One of the ideals, one of the core principles of any relationship, is to love someone for who they really are. Right now, we live in a world where trans people are (often violently) made to feel like something they aren’t. So to love a trans person, to love them for living their truth, for being who they are, that is important. It’s revolutionary, it’s strong… it’s everything to us.

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Jessica Lachenal is a writer who doesn’t talk about herself a lot, so she isn’t quite sure how biographical info panels should work. But here we go anyway. She's the Weekend Editor for The Mary Sue, a Contributing Writer for The Bold Italic (thebolditalic.com), and a Staff Writer for Spinning Platters (spinningplatters.com). She's also been featured in Model View Culture and Frontiers LA magazine, and on Autostraddle. She hopes this has been as awkward for you as it has been for her.

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