"I think that one thing that I’ll be doing for my son specifically in regards to mental illness is… we’re gonna talk about it… uh, there’s gonna be a lot of not shame. And like for me, one of the biggest things is like talking about like neurodiversity and how not everyone’s the same and how it’s ok to feel things, like it’s very important to me to raise a… specifically a boy who knows it’s ok to have feelings. "
“Um, once I got my binder I was so much more comfortable giving hugs, it was such a strange, unexpected switch. It was really, really weird, but I just felt like it wasn't the strange part of my body that would be sexualized in that context anymore.”
"So I got married quite young, 21. And uh… and it was not unusual in those days, but I never had a period to be on my own to navigate my own life. And that would have helped me, I think, to have more self confidence"
"If I ever want to heal myself from my own destructiveness, I need to take responsibility for what I’ve done in service of my eating disorder and forgive past me for turning to such destructive means to handle life, since these measures were all I knew to survive each day." "So many people in the recovery community preach that you should love your body the way that it is and that your body is perfect the way it’s supposed to be naturally and that’s obviously not helpful for trans people because our bodies are the things that are causing us so much pain"
The Cassandra Transcripts 