Leslie Feinberg — a transgender activist, author of Stone Butch Blues, and one of the first to chart a trans-historical lineage in her 1996 book Transgender Warriors — once wrote, “I couldn’t find myself in history. No one like me seemed to have ever existed.”

That absence is not benign; it is violence. It’s the quiet devastation of growing up and never seeing yourself reflected in the curriculum, the library or the museum field trip. It’s the story of too many queer people in Texas and across the country.

It’s my own story. And it’s no accident.

GLSEN’s most recent National School Climate Survey (2021) shows that only 16 percent of LGBTQ+ students are taught positive representations of queer people, history or events in their schools. Fewer than half — just 43 percent — say they can fi

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