Don’t just be aware. Know the pain, the daily endurance of trans people.
The constant hate and lies we must combat. The uncertainty of leaving the house because of how we present. The desire to just be.

This trans awareness week, pay a trans person. And if you love us, fight like hell for us.

So what are you doing, the cis people, watching this unfold?
Do you understand the intersectionality of our existence? We see the gays strut, take from our community, and then claim the world would better if we weren’t so loud.
But what is liberation if we aren’t loud?
Why live if we can’t be?

10. Looking at changing the Olympics to exclude women in a transphobic and racist way
11. Making queer inclusion, especially trans inclusion, in books an issue when it wasn’t
12. Pushing to designate us, trans people, as violent extremists

The list goes on. They want us institutionalized, dead.

4. Erasure of our stories from libraries
5. Supreme Court ruling against gender marker changes for our passports.
6. Anti trans slogans constantly used in politics.
7. Being blamed for a cutting of SNAP benefits.
8. Banning our access to restrooms.
9. Constantly attack our athletes
…

On National Suicide Prevention Day, I’m glad I’m still here. I also know the world is hard. I know I hid it well. I know that most of us do.
Today and everyday, send a check in. Reach out and send a “thinking of you.” We will only survive fascism in community, holding onto each other.

It was the people who love me, care for me, and didn’t expect me to “be good” all the fucking time. It was people who stood by me in the shit and in the mountains. It was love and hugs and laughs and tears and silence and belief that we could do more together than apart.

I remember thinking of plans and making plans when it would be easier to just not exist. I remember researching the best ways to do it so it would be easy for others find.
I’ve come so far and being on T and getting the surgeries helped but really it was community.

I felt this way (and thought everyone did) since high school. I didn’t share it. I grew up in an evangelical church and remember feeling like I’ll never be “good enough”. I will never be “woman” enough. I remember feeling my body felt wrong but just assumed all women felt that way.

It’s forgotten that we aren’t feeling this way because we are trans but that we are trans in an UNACCEPTING society. We read news everyday that says we are pedos, groomers, shouldn’t exist, killers, should die, don’t deserve healthcare, rights, stories, etc.
Of course it’s hard to exist for us.

This Labor Day, take action.
Our rights as workers will continue to be challenged.
Thank unions for standing up against capitalism but let’s continue to push because we all know this isn’t the way to exist. We all deserve to live, thrive, and be able to be human.
Our life isn’t our labor.

Capitalism is working like it’s meant to. It’s uplifting the white and wealthy while removing rights for everyone else. Other countries’ citizens are able to THRIVE. They have access to healthcare, living assistance, liveable wages, etc.We shouldn’t go into debt because of cancer.

Disabled people are seen as disposable. Our houseless neighbors are viewed as drug addicts, not worth the effort. Our homes are too expensive. Healthcare is inaccessible. Minimum wage hasn’t increased in decades. Union rights are decided by state. Education is seen as earned, not a right.