Berlin was waaaay ahead of its time pre-Hitler. Vibrant scene, queer and trans. Stunning really. I don’t have have any recs to offer but I do appreciate your honest and I’m glad something resonated with you. The thing is, the more things change the more they stay the same. Facts and circumstances vary from culture to culture, society to society, person to person and generation to generation but in the west we trans folk still risk an inordinate amount in our lives - an amount cisgender, white, straight folk likely cannot fathom - just to have a chance at quieting the unrelenting sound of gender dissonance in our heads. Relationships, money, career, opportunity, shit man if I went into the opportunities I’ve lost because of transition, not to mention the people I’ve lost, you’d be at risk of swallowing flies. Jaw dropping losses, and here’s the thing devastating loss is the rule for our people not the exception. And yet we are still adamant we must do it because the alternative is death sometimes by suicide, sometimes by slow declines like alcoholism and sometimes by a life felt as a complete and utter waste of inauthenticity.