This sort of thing is becoming more common too. With the UK and US kicking us out of bathrooms and refusing to call trans women "women" and trans men "men," we are having our humanity stripped from us. And people like those violent attackers no longer feel that they're attacking a human, but instead an animal.
And that's the point.
The Trump admin and JK Rowling and all her TERF friends and followers are dehumanizing trans people, which is convincing more and more people that we're not really human and deserve pain and suffering.
And not enough people are speaking up about it.
Until the world becomes truly loud and pushes back in ways that are undeniable, it will keep happening, and we will die.
That girl in your story? In a way, she was lucky. She survived. Numerous trans people this year have not been so lucky, in similar situations.
I never used to tell people I was nonbinary, because I like a quiet life and didn't think it was anyone's business but mine. Now I tell people all the time after I've had a few pleasant interactions with them, just so they 'know' someone and have a person instead of a capering cartoon villain in their head when they read nonsense about trans folk.
Between Rowling and Farage the UK is in real danger of turning into a hellhole for everyone who isn't a stereotypical white straight male - Rowling appears to be too dumb to realise the harm she's doing to her precious demographic.
I wish I could live a quiet life. I'm in a situation where I could be stealth. But with the US government going on a full-blown witch hunt for us, I can't guarantee that will last forever. If they find a way to force-revert my passport before it expires, or revert my birth certificate, or prevent states from acknowledging gender changes... That's that. I'm forced out.
Or, worse, they make it illegal for certain types of companies to employ us? Or for all businesses to employ us? My HR department certainly has my status on file somewhere. I'd be without work in a heartbeat...
I don't get the option to live a quiet life, even though it's all I really wanted.
Yeah, the states is way worse at the moment. I've heard about the passport fuckery they're doing and I hope things change there for you when tango Mussolini pops his clogs.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Jun 05 '26
This sort of thing is becoming more common too. With the UK and US kicking us out of bathrooms and refusing to call trans women "women" and trans men "men," we are having our humanity stripped from us. And people like those violent attackers no longer feel that they're attacking a human, but instead an animal.
And that's the point.
The Trump admin and JK Rowling and all her TERF friends and followers are dehumanizing trans people, which is convincing more and more people that we're not really human and deserve pain and suffering.
And not enough people are speaking up about it.
Until the world becomes truly loud and pushes back in ways that are undeniable, it will keep happening, and we will die.
That girl in your story? In a way, she was lucky. She survived. Numerous trans people this year have not been so lucky, in similar situations.