carrying employees to work in 2018. Though the company recently announced its“vision”for a transformed downtown, theSouth Bay Community Land Trust And in March, Louisville, Kentucky, police fatally shot a 26-year-old emergency medical technician namedBreonna Taylor Later that evening, when I recounted the excitement of being taken to the principal’s office—escorted by the principal, no less—Mom went ballistic. “Who does Principal Hestand think he is,” she fumed, “trying to intimidate you just for standing up for what you believe?” It felt like Mom and I were in a conspiracy together. The rush was exhilarating. Whether he meant to or not, Principal Hestand gets credit for helping to launch my life of activism. I’ve always wanted to find him and thank him for getting me started! But people were particularly nice and good about it. Which has been funny, because I originally wanted to come out in 2013, but the conversation around transgender people was not happening that much, [even then]. It's not the coverage that we see now. So, I always wonder, if I came out forty years ago, what would've the response been then versus the response that I received a year and a half ago, two years ago?TV: