One of the only things that gives me hope is seeing that Trans people are at the forefront of nearly every new development in art and culture from the 2010s on. From the ‘40s on, that’s been true of Black artists like Bud Powell and the Modernists, and revolutionary women artists become similarly visible to the culture starting in the ‘60s. But we’re now in a time when stupefying innovation is pouring from Trans artists — often from niche culture to mainstream, but also to mainstream directly.