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When Emily Matview came out as transgender, she discovered an unlikely support network a punk rock community she helped build herselfEmily Matview had always wanted a professional manicure. One August day last year, she worked up the nerve and finally did it. She and her friends went to a nail salon on West Charleston. As she walked in, Emily’s mind was a whirl of feelings. She was excited, but also nervous, a little scared. Would anyone look at her funny? Would someone say something? Besides that, she wasn’t sure what kind of nails she wanted to get; she wasn’t even sure what kind of nails she should want to get. At 37 years old, Emily was so new to all of this. “Getting my nails done is something I’d always wanted to do,” she says. “But I had always been too scared to do it before. Like, I had always been picked on so hard for already being too feminine or whatever, so it wasn’t like I was ever going to do anything to draw more attention to myself.” Emily had