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She Was Only 17

Nikki Kuhnhausen was like a lot of teenage girls. She loved makeup, spent hours perusing videos on TikTok, and had dreams of one day becoming a makeup artist.

Kuhnhausen owned her trans identity since she was a child. She summoned the strength her mother, Lisa Woods, (pictured) helped instill in her to empower other young people to find their own voices—specifically trans youth. Woods explains that Kuhnhausen’s pride in her identity inspired trans students at her high school in Vancouver, Wash.

“I knew she

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