Can you tell us a little bit about that?

Yes, absolutely.

So similar to Chazzie, I came out to my parents in middle school, um, at the age of 12.

I actually came out to my mom on my 12th birthday with the mindset that if I come out to my mom on my birthday she can't get mad at me.

It's something that now I'm able to laugh about in retrospect, but in the moment and, you know, thinking about just kind of like my strategy there, it was something that I turned to, I guess, out of fear.

Um, you know, in months leading up to me coming out as transgender I spent a lot of time on the internet looking up phrases like girl who feels like boy or in the wrong body, and that's when I first came across the word transgender.

Um, because similar to what Chazzie was saying, representation was something that wasn't necessarily accessible to me at a young age.

How did that come about? And how has that shaped your ideas about what allyship, uh, can really look like?