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It's #TransDayOfRemembrance 
today, during a year where so many trans women - Black trans women, esp - have died, and transphobia has been the glue holding all sorts of assholes across political spectrums together. As cis people, we need to always make it clear we back trans folks
today, during a year where so many trans women - Black trans women, esp - have died, and transphobia has been the glue holding all sorts of assholes across political spectrums together. As cis people, we need to always make it clear we back trans folks
We need to make it clear in person, when those who dehumanize our trans kin try to get by with comments meant to keep transphobia normalized. We need to stop them in their tracks and let them know they cannot say those sorts of things around us, because we support trans life.
We need to take on the difficult conversations with family and friends who are ignorant and use that ignorance as an excuse to continue transphobic words and actions, because that's our role as allies. We need to normalize trans life and trans love, so we can literally save lives
We need to all consume more trans art. We need to centre trans folks, particularly Black and/or Indigenous trans women, in conversations about *all things* (not just trans issues, though obviously that should be a given) so that we don't tokenize them. We need to value trans ppl.
And not consider them an afterthought. We need to stand up to those that purposely twist the legal meaning of free speech and expression (which is about government suppression, for the record, not deplatforming) to try to force transphobic hate speech into public institutions.
But mostly, we as cis ppl need to really listen to trans people when they tell us what they need from us - and when they tell us, we need to *actually do it.* When we make mistakes, we need to listen, apologize and move on. It's not about our egos. It's about valuing trans lives.
