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Slack.com slash DHQ. Kate Sozin isn't especially conflicted about being trans.

Being trans, to me, is my favorite thing about myself. I love being trans. It's like the

best. I mean, you just see the world in such a better way, I think.

Kate's a reporter with the 19th, goes by They Them Pronouns. And Kate's got this great

way of talking about being non-binary. So many of us without realizing it are like

sitting on a conveyor belt of gender, right? Like we put on the clothes that are in the

aisles that were told to walk through, right? Like, I just love the ways that being trans

is open the world to me. It's generous, so such a rigid social construct, right? Like,

men have been denied access to their emotions. You know, women have been denied the right

to work or get paid fairly. When you are non-binary trans, like I am, you don't have to operate

from all of those set of prescriptions.

But as much as Kate loves who they are, they acknowledge it's a pretty weird time to

be a trans reporter. Kate covers lawmaking around LGBTQ plus issues. And just last week,

Kate watched as Donald Trump did an extended riff on the dangers of trans kids in sports

at the conservative political action conference. And this was just after the first trans person

to have a Senate confirmation hearing got grilled by Republicans. Now, Kate's tracking

the way state legislatures are trying to spin this animus into rules around who's allowed

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