Encore: Trans Elders Share Decades of Wisdom and Advice With Younger Generations
Quetzali, left, places their hand on Donna Personna’s hand as Donna speaks about her life, at her home in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)
November is Transgender Awareness Month, so we’re revisiting two conversations from our award-winning series, Love You For You, between young people in their 20s and transgender elders, whose lives reflect the long arc of transgender activism in California. Quetzali, a 23-year-old Latinx nonbinary organizer from Sacramento, talks to 79-year-old transgender Chicana activist Donna Personna. And Zen Blossom, who works at a Black trans cultural center, speaks with Andrea Horne, an actress, jazz singer, historian and social worker.