We need to celebrate LGBTQ joy this Pride Month. Lives depend on it. [usatoday.com]

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By David Oliver, Illustration: Colin Smith, USA TODAY LIFE, June 8, 2021

Imagine your high school baseball team banning you from playing. Your local DMV barring you from changing the name on your driver's license. Your neighbors darting their eyes away from you in public.

The transgender community faces hardships like these on a daily basis – not to mention a wave of discriminatory legislation. Trans people are like Sisyphus, forever barreling a boulder up a never-ending hill.

But what if that hill wasn't so intimidating after all, and they were given encouragement, smiles and support along the way?

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