Vulnerable Women lll
Isabella Rodriguez: The original self-made woman
She was born without sin.
Vulnerable women are strong. If they keep fighting for their rights, they grow even stronger.
Vulnerability is both the possibility of being hurt and the possibility of being deeply human.
I turn to my best friend in LA, Isabella, and ask: What does it mean to be trans today?
She has fought for trans rights her whole life. Yet now, she questions what she can do. She has given her heart and soul, yet feels resentment even from the powers that are meant to protect her community. It’s not about pronouns, she says softly. Pronouns are labels. Advocacy is not about fitting into a system that refuses to see trans women fully.
She explains that pronouns, while meant to identify someone’s name, often enforce gender; like we enforce it on cats and dogs. For her, truth and survival matter more than labels.
Her words remind me: women, especially the most vulnerable, are stronger than they realize. Strength is born not from comfort, but from struggle, from standing for ourselves, from refusing to be erased.
We are human. We are vulnerable. And in that vulnerability, we discover our power.
Interview with Isabella for my book Holy:
