Lexie Bean

lexie bean: When I Didn’t Have the Words

I stopped speaking at the age of nine.

As a child, I was not out as someone transgender because I didn’t know that the term existed. I was not out as a survivor of sexual violence because I didn’t know those words were an option for me or for anyone else, either.

I can say it now: I am a trans survivor of childhood sexual abuse with cycles repeated well into my adulthood.