- Being in a state that is very anti transgender.

What can Tennessee be doing better right now to support our transgender community, our lesbian, our gay community at this particular time, especially going into 2024?

- I think it's just something that we have to just continue to advocate.

And we've got to educate people.

You know, so many people don't understand what the trans community, in the first two years that I've transitioned, I've shrunk an inch and a half because the disc in between the vertebrae is less than a woman than it is on a man.

My skin is thinner, so I cut easy.

I bruise easier.

My pores are smaller, so I sweat less.

Because I sweat less, I have drier skin.

I have to moisturize all the time.

My lung capacity is three fourths of what it used to be.

My red blood cell count's almost half.

I lost every bit of my upper body strength, and for some reason I only put on weight just right here in the hips and thighs area.

I don't know what it's all about that, but, you know, so it's just education.

The biggest problem that we have in the trans community is a lot of folks see us as men in wigs, and they don't see us for everything that happens, and all the stuff that we go through.

You know, and so I think it's just education and spending some time with people.

I've sent a letter to Governor Lee, Speaker Sexton and Speaker McNally, and asking for a meeting that as an elected official and as a constituent, that I would like to spend an opportunity to just kind of educate you on some things.

And of course, neither one has answered, and I didn't expect.

- Of course, they of course, they like, emailed you back and you got right on their schedule immediately.

- And so I'm free, I'm free to meet Thursday, Olivia, but, you know, and, and I'll keep pushing.

And I'll keep trying.

But my main number one goal is to fix the broken parts of Nashville.

And when I have some free time in the evening, I'm a activist for trans community.

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