I'd genuinely love to never talk about this shit anymore, but that would require me to stop *experiencing* it constantly.

@DemonMama People, on average, are just kinda assholes tbh. Not very cool of them to wanna kill us, not very poggers at all. No, but really, things are getting dire and I don’t have any way of escaping to a better state than Kentucky or moving away, I’m fuckin’ 15. A lot more people are out there like me, when I went to high school I noticed several kids with trans pins on their bags, there are so many people like me, who are stuck and can’t get help. It makes it really hard to find motivation tbh, the only thing keeping me going is the future generations of trans people like us, we need to make the world a safe place for lgbt people, because no matter how hard they try, we’re always gonna be around.

@DemonMama And I can only see it getting worse for us :(

@DemonMama I've been having it dumped on me today by "allies" telling me I'm an asshole who's transphobic- for pointing out transphobia and calling it out as unacceptable. I want a death ray.

@DemonMama just had a butch transbian friend 2 days ago get thrown slurs at work by a customer who then postured with a gun to anyone who tried to stand up for her or throw him out :/ Arizona doesn't get as much attention as Texas or Florida in this regard due to them being more governmental crackdowns but AZ has a massive far-right problem both legislatively and on the ground. Dealing myself with death and r*** threats for the crime of being out in public with my gf, I'm very worried about how quickly these are starting to look like they'll stop being threats. :/

@DemonMama In fragile and violent times like these, I think of the activists and ideological torch-bearers before us who inspire us and the children before us. Particularly, of the late Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and his hope for a better world; we may be divorced from him through time but the ideological battles of old remain the same. For those who’ve never seen it, enjoy DM’s account of Magnus Hirschfeld’s fight for queer rights only 100 years ago:
https://youtu.be/Ddv0aL_-HK8

@DemonMama It's nearly paralyzing realizing how inhuman those narrow-minded people fanning the flames of suffering are. No hope for dialogue and always concern about the most unstable among them.
However much the system seems to be incapable of supporting what's right, ancient wisdom says there is no favoritism shown between the high and low, and the Way will always be found near the good.

@DemonMama If I'm being super honest I feel like it's either people who are so vitriolic and cruel towards us or its people who are just silent and pretty much allow the violence to continue, even though there are allies out there who want to actually fight for trans rights I still feel like most people just don't say anything and it's so sad to see where these conditions will lead to.

The slogan "Silence = Death" from the aids crisis needs to make a serious comeback in terms of the trans community with how the right is attacking us and trying to systematically destroy us. While many who are "neutral" or self-proported allies are simply not saying anything at all or just accepting it as the norm, it really is so frightening and anxiety producing seeing where this will take us to.....

I can only hope that we can survive by living as a community and helping each other out, I feel that's the only way we'll survive this hatred and destruction.