Jamison

His name was Steve Dain. It was 1976. He was on television being interviewed about fighting to keep his teaching job because he had transitioned from female to male. The year prior he had been named California's Teacher of the Year. But he was calm self-confident articulate and so clear about who he was as a man. And at that moment I knew it was possible: I too could become the man I knew I was.

Having a community other trans men to talk with and share our experiences newsletters produced by other trans people connections to therapists and physicians who were willing to listen and to help us actualize ourselves. And especially meeting the men who had come before and who had survived and were living and loving their lives sharing the stories of those who had come before.