“When I was a little girl (but being raised as a little boy), what I wanted more than anything was to be a dancer. How I longed for it — the lights, the stage, the gorgeous costumes, most of all for the delivering grace of movement in harmony with a choreography greater than myself. Like a little Chinese {{w|Billy Elliot}}, I had a beautiful, impossible dream. But unlike Billy Elliot’s, mine was never realized. {{w|Transmisogyny}} and two left feet saw to that: I was laughed, bullied, or shamed out of every dance class I attempted.”