I rarely speak directly about gender stuff these days - I am too tired etc - but at the end of a horrible week for so many trans people, this:
If you imagine that the pushback against trans people has ever just been about ‘concern’ or protecting the young, please stop. 1/3
If you imagine that the pushback against trans people has ever just been about ‘concern’ or protecting the young, please stop. 1/3
The desire for ‘roll-back’ on trans rights runs deep into profoundly pernicious anxiety and fear about difference which ultimately affects all who are coded as ‘different’. Did you imagine that the roll-back would stop with ‘blockers’? 2/3
Do you imagine that it is only trans young lives that are in question? The fact that so much anti-trans rhetoric is a repeat of 80s anti-gay rhetoric is a clue. Please stand with us. Stand with trans people. Hold to the line of grace and love. Don’t give in to the logic of fear.