Sandman Was My First Exposure To Trans People, The Way You Wrote Wanda……I Felt Horrible For Her When

Sandman was my first exposure to trans people, the way you wrote Wanda……I felt horrible for her when her nightmares were of having to undergo surgery to be a woman and I wanted to scream at her parents when they dressed her in a suit and put her deadname on her gravestone. I was 14 and reading it in the library in a very conservative area, and I never knew being trans was possible before that.

I consider it to be, if not *the* reason, one of the reasons I’m such a staunch supporter of the trans community. I was 14 years old and it opened my eyes to a whole community I knew nothing about. Thank you for your writing, it changed my life. I don’t care if you respond to this but I wanted you to know how big of a difference writing one person in a comic made to me.

I’m glad it helped.

And that really is why people are trying to ban books and gut libraries now. Because ideas are dangerous and they can invoke empathy.

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