Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials) and the result is more

and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo

her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators

An ode to traveling as friends when you're both young and carefree and every new experience is exciting and wondrous

Natural Selection by Whyte Yoté

then up her legs

Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials) and the result is moreThere are fantastical stories with actual transgender characters, some for whom that is central and others for whom that isn't. And there are stories without transgender characters, but with metaphors and symbolism in their place, genuine expressions of self through such speculative fiction tropes as shapeshifting and programming. Transgender individuals see themselves in transformative characters, those outsiders, before seeing themselves as human