Whether it was inspiring people to live the life they truly deserved or making them feel beautiful, Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien had made it her mission to make transgender women feel safe and acknowledged.
Christa, 42, was so grateful to have successfully found her place in the world. She might have been born biologically male, but she was accepted and loved as the female she always knew she was.
She’d built a life many might take for granted and knew that others in her community deserved to feel the same. Christa was married to Mark, and they lived together in North Adams, Massachusetts with their cats and dogs.
They’d been married less than a year, but they’d been dating and living together for two years before that. Now they had their