Blaise Imiolczyk  🏳️‍🌈

I was speaking to someone today who is working with a 19yr old trans woman who is currently being forced to keep their male name, male pronouns and identify as a male until they can get a "referral" to a gender identity clinic, despite presenting as a woman.

They detest their body, can't even look at themselves when they shower, refuse to ever be naked, actively consider self harm on a regular basis and are bsolutely terrified of being forced to go into the male toilets when out in public.

That is the reality for too many people as a result of the narrative that has been pushed for so long that trans women aren't women and are to be feared. It destroys their lives.

Just look at the way men write women. They are unable (for the most part) and unwilling to think of us as PEOPLE. They understand a mans discomfort, meanwhile they pathologize a womans rational fear.