As a trans woman, I will be subject to violence when I return from the US. And it won't be because of my politics or actions or speech.
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It will be because I exist, and my existence is an evidentiary challenge to the worldview of those in power.
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I will be subjugated into silence and invisibility. I will be framed as a threat and a predator without cause.
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I will be guilty of crimes that exist only in the minds of people who want me to disappear, and then will be punished for those crimes.
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The suppression of my voice will be hailed as free speech by those who think that free speech means they get to consume 100% of attention.
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Some will read this and think "omg persecution complex" but these are all things that have *already actually happened*.
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