Last week, I choose to support the college’s FMLA chapter by attending an event called the Breastival. The event was held to promote awareness of breast cancer issues, and even though I’m active member of our FMLA group, I went there as opposed to doing something else…like watching anime..

For those of you who don’t know, I’m transgender. Moreover, I mostly pass as a man. It’s not often that I choose to dress up as the female that I feel I am, and when I attended the Breastival, I didn’t dress up that day either. To some extent, having only three skirts and one pair of heeled boots limits my choices. So I knew going in that people who didn’t know ...