This goddamn administration has taken so much from me. There's nothing easy about being trans, but especially right now.
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I'm 100% convinced that I end this administration dead or in jail and not a single thing has assuaged that fear.
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We're not even 4 months in and he's fired everyone investigating him. What's month 18 gonna look like? Month 31?
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When I look at my peers, the queer community, and I see how their support structures have eroded, too, and I reconcile this with the news...
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it becomes abundantly clear that these issues are completely linked. That's what authoritarianism relies on. It's not just explicit power.
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It's the implicit ability to entangle social support around the authority and to remove undesirables by turning them to castaways.
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They don't need legislative action--though that's coming, too. They just need to create an us vs. them mindset. And that's already happened.
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I think my mom wishes she could give me advice, but it's hard for us to talk about anything b/c she tries to be "non political"
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So we have shallow conversations about the weather and recipes. We avoid more so we don't argue. But I know I have it better than many.
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I'm so sorry. It might happen one day. Until then, you may need to build your own family of dear ones. Wishing you well.
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