So there's this thing about #SecondCivilWarLetters going around and what I see are a bunch of glib white people mocking white suburbia, so let me post some of my Second Civil War letter, one I actually wrote shortly before I was surrounded by 300 men with torches and gassed.
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She has been patient with me through transition. Transition is a very self-centered process. It is a process of rediscovery.
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The toll it takes on a relationship is not necessarily one of gender or sexuality or perception, but how a person who was able to give to others must now give to themselves to become whole.
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I thought about writing letters to [my loved ones] in case I don't make it. About what they meant to me. But something I learned from those relationships is that it's so much better to speak what you feel, to live without regrets.
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And I think I want that to be my legacy. That though imperfect, I tried to love perfectly.
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Don't bid me caution, because safety is not my choice to make. Don't bid me luck, because I must rely on skill. I walk in tomorrow to face off people who have told me they want me dead...
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that they want to turn America into a white-only continent, that they want to suppress women, to erase queers, to murder people of color. I don't do this to be brave, or to be strong, or to inspire, or to satisfy an ego.
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I do this because every human being deserves the chance to love as I have loved and to be loved as I have been loved. One day. Simply bid me well. I'll see you all on the 13th.
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Within the next 24 hours, I would be attacked by a torch-bearing mob and find myself on-scene during a terrorist attack from someone who wanted to start a race war. Spare me your fucking Olive Garden takes.
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