I don’t want this blog to turn into a stream of reposts of other people’s work, but I saw this video this morning and it left me in tears and with a feeling of joy. Then I watched it a second time just so I could experience it once more.

You can find the original of this on Bree’s Instagram site at https://www.instagram.com/laser.breems/

While watching this I felt such joy for Bree. The difference between her old self and current self is so incredibly obvious for anyone to see. She’s come alive whereas previously she seemed like, well, the way I was before I transitioned.

But I also began thinking that this joy is precisely what transphobes want to deny to us. They want to force us all to be those depressed, barely living creatures we were before we discovered ourselves. Worse, they want us to know that we could be happy but that happiness is being deliberately withheld from us. They want to torture us.

They want us to die.

Please spread this video far and wide so that every cis person who doesn’t know how joyful transition is can get to see it! Maybe it will help to convince them to stand up for us instead of passively letting us being eradicated.