“In a world that both desexualizes and hypersexualizes transfeminine people, I am desperate to find companionship and touch.”

— Jacob Tobia

Sissy Diaries: The Harsh Realities of Dating for Gender-Nonconforming Femmes https://www.them.us/story/sissy-diaries-dating-while-nonbinary (April 25, 2018).

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american LGBTIQ activist 1991

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