On July 31, 2019, BBC World Service aired a radio segment on dating as a transgender person. Specifically, they asked three transgender women, including myself, to share with them "how and when transgender people should reveal their identity to the person they are dating." They aired about one minute of the response I submitted to them, along with responses from the other two women. You can listen to the audio embedded below, archived from BBC's website: While it was exciting to be consulted on the topic by the BBC, I was disappointed that they did not include any of my statement where I discussed discrimination, stigma, and violence that transgender women regularly face. In particular, I discussed the “transgender panic defense,” an insidious concept that excuses violence against ...