COME TO BLOWS

Now that Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien had found her place in the world, she wanted to make other transgender women feel safe and beautiful.

Christa, 42, was so grateful to be able to live the life that many take for granted and knew others in her community deserved to feel the same.

Christa was accepted as the woman she always knew she was inside.

She fought for trans rights and equality

She was married to her husband Mark, and they lived together in North Adams, Massachusetts with their dogs and cats.

They’d been married less than a