At one part of the book she described being trans as similar to the feeling of homesickness . . . except that the longer you live with being trans and hiding your true self the worse it gets. It's a great analogy and I completely agree.

In general, I find the work of government boring but she did an amazing job making it sound exciting. In one part she spoke of how critical it is to have diverse representation in order to have a government truly "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Sarah's husband died to cancer in 2014, when both of them were in their 20s. She wrote of the anger she felt and how there wasn't anything to blame for his death. How can you be mad at a bunch of cells? She could, and was, however angry that he, a trans man, had to live 75% of his life in-authentically because of the fear and hate our community faces if we choose to come out and transition.

Near the end of the book she talks about how it can be "easy" to write-off anti-LGBTQIA+ hate as coming from people who are in the closet and hate themselves. She wrote that the more typical issue is that all humans have insecurities and that there are people who are jealous of others for living our authentic lives.