Kat and Aly Wright are a queer married couple in Columbia. Kat is queer and nonbinary, and Aly is a bisexual transgender woman.

They spoke about their different – yet overlapping – journeys with gender and how they’ve supported each other along the way.

Alphabet Soup shares LGBTQ+ Missourians’ stories through portraiture and personal narratives.

Aly Wright : I Have a distinct memory from when I was maybe three years old, carrying around a stuffed animal, and I remember telling my parents, “I'm his mommy,” and being corrected, “Um, well, no, you would be daddy,” and that just sat very wrong with me, but experiences like that were what shaped the world around me.

And so, the first real trans person that I saw in media who was being respected was Lana Wachowski. She had just come out, an

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