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It's something even a lot of my friends don't even really get. I ended up going to a Birthday party where across the street from the restaurant there was a 250 plus rally of anti-trans protesters with zero counter protesters. We didn't realize the thing would be there. I ended up not being able to eat because the stress from proximity made me throw up everything.
I know we get called sensitive snowflakes but having that level of outright hate shoved in your face can easily make anyone feel very small and very vulnerable and at some level it's visceral.
That is a complete projection. You live daily what would destroy many of them. Most?
Cowardice outsources its self-loathing; courage faces it squarely and finds ways to cope with it. Whatever you are, no matter how you feel on any given day, you're no coward.
Of all the nellie over-sensitive snowflakes in the world, you (and those like you) are NO snowflakes.
I'd like to see any one of your detractors have to walk in your shoes for even a single day.
For what it's worth, you have my respect and my admiration. I sincerely hope things get better for you and that you find your corner or part of the world that embraces your true value as a human being -- and shame on the rest of us for not working harder to make that the reality for everyone.
It's harder to feel like a capable badass when you've borrowed a friend's hat to cover your rainbow colored hair and are ralphing korean food into a strip mall garbage can.
At some level we as a demographic are sensitive, I can't really control the way I feel about my body and my place in society. Being out does mean exposing that vulnerability where other people can see. Sensitivity isn't cowardice but it does mean having to realize where your limits are and how you work. A lot of us learn to put on a tough as nails affect over time so we can get through a regular ass day. Realistically I know I am not a coward any more than I am Superman. I am just doing my best
Not only that, but then have the hate be called "reasonable debate"
As if we aren't actual real people that just want to exist in the world. It's like you have to fight against the fucking river in making anyone even believe you that what they are seeing is hate, transphobia.
We're simply not treated like real people in these debates, and it's frustrating and exhausting. If they faced the same treatment you would bet they would protest severely.
But I guess that is also the case for cis women in the abortion debate. I guess the debate being about half of the population still isn't enough for empathy.
Pretty real stuff. A feels like lot of people just want to punch through us to hit somebody on the other side. I can't say I like the way they frame things about parents rights either. It's like they want to own their children like property not just be a major influence in their lives. The lack of empathy doesn't even really extend to their own flesh and blood much less us.
My hometown's council is like a microcosm of the whole thing. A vocal group storms the trustee meetings to rail on and on about how we need to Protect children from gender ideology, they run over their alloted time so nobody can get any regular business done and the board turns their mic off so they can just function as a government. The "spurned Conservatives" then go to the local paper and tell everyone that their freedom of speech was unjustly curtailed because a hypocritical progressive turned their mic off. The paper prints the story uncritically and all of a sudden we're a threat to freedom of speech and democracy... They then turn around and say "I'm not transphobic" as though they didn't just paint us as bogeyman who are dangerous to be around women, kids, polling stations, government, pens and paper etc. etc. etc.
Some days it's just a lot.
Yeah...