““...nobody really wants to be a trans woman, i.e. nobody wakes up and goes whoa, maybe my life would be better if I transitioned, alienating most of my friends and my family, I wonder what'll happen at work, I'd love to spend all my money on hormones and surgeries, buying a new wardrobe that I don't even understand right now, probably become unlovable and then ending my short life in a bloody murder.””
![“That night I looked Stephanie [Burt] up online and started reading more about her work...I kept encountering a striking factoid...: she’s often cited as the most influential poetry critic of her generation. And she’s openly trans. This is not the world I was taught I would grow into when I was a…” quote by Mitch Kellaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e62/mitch-kellaway-52397_poetry_that-night-i-looked-stephanie-burt-up-on_1972814.jpg)
![“["Manning Up"'s] essays definitely nuance the idea of transitioning into a “shared manhood” (much like feminists of color have complicated the idea of “shared womanhood”). Trans men don’t all transition to just become “men,” which was one of the projects’ cornerstone concepts. They become black…” quote by Mitch Kellaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/118/mitch-kellaway-52397_feminism_manning-up-s-essays-definitely-nuance-th_1256955.jpg)
