Tell us, tell us your experience.

And then a Baptist, Southern Baptist church.

I loved the praise and worship and like singing and all that, like the entertainment I was here for.

Everything else, not so much.

Thank you Bob and Monet, and thank you Reach LA, and thank you Los Angeles! I gotta be honest, I am feeling all types of things.

I'm feeling loved, I'm feeling happy, I'm feeling angry in this time, I'm feeling upset, I'm feeling inspired, I'm feeling overwhelmed, both with joy and sometimes confusion.

at this very moment.

Well, thanks

(laughs) Right, Jake?

Yeah, yeah.

Hello? But beyond that, I have to say that in my experience, and this is not like a hard fast rule, but in my ex- my experience, especially today, we can see that there's a lot of, um, barriers that trans people face.

There's a lot of challenges.

And, and when anybody overcomes faces and then overcomes challenges, that hopefully makes them a better person.

So if trans people are facing challenges and overcoming them, which we are, uh, just by living our lives, uh, with the high rate of murder, the n- you know, like, interpersonally, there's a high rate of murder against trans women, specifically Black trans women.

But then also our state, our country is making all these laws and doing all these things.

You were.