How The Animals Saved Me: a transgender person's experience with homelessness in San Francisco.

In 2012 I was facing homelessness. I was 47 years old at the time, and I thought I was going to die, or be killed during my homeless stint in San Francisco. I had experienced a horrible loss before I became homeless, so I became hopeless, alone, disenfranchised, and scared. But I found solace, and comfort from beings that are hated, often killed and, or, hunted down and brutally slaughtered. I found peace in beings that recognized me as an equal. They say, people who go to the animals for help are usually the ones' who people cannot help. No human could help me the way the animals helped me.