Trace Lysette knows how powerful a good relationship with your mother can be. When she came out in the ’90s, most parents lacked the resources and information to know how to support a trans child.
“There wasn’t much out there on transness back then except for these awful talk shows and whatever kind of representation we had back then,” Lysette says of her childhood. “And so you can imagine how that would inform the minds of our parents, like ‘what does that mean for their baby’ and ‘what kind of life is that for their baby?’”
Thankfully, now, she and her mother are in a
