"You have to understand how unsafe it is to be a trans person, period, especially here in Virginia," Charley Burton said on the In My Humble Opinion podcast. He used to sneak to the back of the Gordon Avenue Library in Charlottesville as a child to try to understand his identity. Kori Price/Charlottesville Tomorrow
Episode 3 features trans advocate Charley Burton, author of: “He used to sneak to the back of the library to learn about who he was. Now, this trans advocate has his own book,” for Charlottesville Tomorrow.
When he was eight years old, Charley would climb the big brick steps of the Gordon Avenue Library and sneak into the adult section to try to figure out why he felt like a little boy when everyone else knew him as a girl.
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