When author and activist Raquel Willis came out to her parents, they didn’t initially react positively. While that was hard for her, she did not let it stop her from continuing to come out to others and live her truth as a proud trans woman.

Sam asks Raquel how online forums helped her find community when she was a young queer person, and why she wishes more members of the mainstream media would trade in their “objectivity” for empathy.

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