Video description:

This video is for transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people, and anyone else who has been pushed to the margins.

You face unspeakable adversity. So many voices shame you and want you to be diminished to a more palatable effigy of yourself, and many don’t care if that means the material or metaphysical disillusionment of who you truly are. The voices come from your government, from strangers on the internet, from your coworkers, from your family.

One of the voices probably comes from inside you.

Every voice in this video is from someone rooting for you. I’m rooting for you.

When you’re too broken to work, too broken to play, too broken to even get out of bed, know this:

Every breath you take is a radical refusal to acquiesce to the voices that want you to be diminished. Your cellular metabolism follows the same basic chemical equation as any other fire. Focus on taking your next breath. Feed the flame oxygen and Don’t. Be. Extinguished.