Note: Right after I originally hit publish on this yesterday, I read news of our bombing attack on Iran. Always some new, bigger outrage with these chaos monkeys America saw fit to put in charge, somehow making my concerns for the trans community feel like a hill of beans in

Early in the 20th Century, the families of my maternal and paternal grandparents were part of the tremendous wave of Jewish people to flee Russian poverty and pogroms. Most of my relatives made their way to the United States. My mother's father, however, decided to settle his family