Right now is a weird time to be a trans person in the United States. We’re being attacked on all sides: , , even . They’d prefer it if we’d just disappear from public life, stop telling our stories and showing our faces in the light of day.
knows we deserve better. In today’s release , Scott’s , she shows transfeminine people in a way that media often doesn’t: Happy. In great outfits, hanging out with cool cars, as with interests and hobbies beyond gender.
I sat down with Scott to talk about the book, and learn what she wanted it to be — and what she still wants it to inspire in others. The first shoot was in December of 2021, after I got back from my van trip. I had the SW20 that’s on the cover as a loaner car while I got my van fixed.
Claire was staying in Dallas with a girlfriend of hers, and I went out to go visit and we just had a night to kill before going to get dinner together. And so I said, “We should go take pictures.” We had this cool car.
She’s obviously got a good sense of fashion, she’s got the whole ’90s yellow thing going on, and we had the yellow DART train. I managed to time it right for a really good shot. And so, initially, I just made a little spread because the pictures were more compelling together than they were solo.
I was like, “This is a really cool little fashion shoot.” And then, I was like, “Huh, I wonder if I could make this into a replicable thing.” So the second shoot in the book, with Roxy, was when I tried .
