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A thread:
I don't know if it's appropriate to speak about my own experience on the back of the loss of one of our community, but it's something I need my cis friends to understand.
A thread:
I don't know if it's appropriate to speak about my own experience on the back of the loss of one of our community, but it's something I need my cis friends to understand.
Being connected to the trans community means that you are going to encounter suicide and trauma at rates much greater than you otherwise would, even if you yourself are doing fine.
And these losses would be preventable in a world that did not treat us as lesser.
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And these losses would be preventable in a world that did not treat us as lesser.
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I have known of more deaths by suicide in the 3 years since coming out than the whole of my 37 years prior, by a wide margin. I have lost one person close to me, though they were not trans.
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I have however, had several close calls, and have invested substantial energy to doing what I can to support my friends while also knowing that I alone cannot affect outcomes.
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This is an appeal to everyone: What has the most impact in preventing these losses is a world that is affirming and accepting, where medical care is attainable and affordable, where our ability to work and provide for ourselves and our families is not gutted.
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I hope that I will never know this kind of loss intimately, but even adjacent to it is terrible, as is living with the knowledge that facing it is almost certain on a long enough timeline, and that it doesn't have to be.
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To my siblings, I'm here if you are looking for places to put your pain. DM's are open, my heart is with all of you.
