I’m a transgender woman and like most of our kind, I’m fucking horrified.

The Democrats are blaming us for 2024’s lossx

Trump signed an executive order criminalizing our existence

And I’ve had cis friends turn on me, telling me “People like you should have left children out of it, you’ve hurt your cause forever!!111!11”

I have no hope for the future, I feel truly and horrifically, cooked.

I just wanna know. Why did this happen? Why does everyone suddenly hate transpeople when Anti-Trans Policies were deeply unpopular as recently as 2023?

Why? Why? Why?

I just want to know, what did we do wrong? What changed? Why is this happening to us? When do the papers come saying they’ve “corrected my gender marker” or are they just going to drag me off to the camps instead?

I just… I’m trying to hold it together, and I fucking can’t.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Trans people are vulnerable, that’s it. You did nothing to deserve it.

    When I was a kid I remember being at the zoo during feeding time for gorillas. The zoo keeper was chucking sweet potatoes and other things into the pit. Two gorillas were sitting next to each other, a big one and a small one. The big one got hit on the head with a sweet potato and immediately responded with violence onto the smaller gorilla next to him.

    Gorillas are smart, there’s no way he thought that the small gorilla was responsible for the yam to the head. But he couldn’t attack the one throwing potatoes. That other gorilla was vulnerable and accessible. That’s all. I think about that a lot.

    Also, same gorilla enclosure where Harambe would be killed years later. It’s like “come to Cincinnati, see our pit of cruel metaphor!”

      • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        59 minutes ago

        You know what’s also funny, the gorillas were different sizes because of sexual dimorphism. Decades later I was at a lecture about animal morphology and the lecturer mentioned that, among primates, humans are actually fairly androgynous. I think about that a lot too.

        For all the cruelty we inflict on one another about it, an orangutan probably couldn’t even tell you what the fuck we’re talking about because male humans don’t even have giant cheek flaps. Like the “angle measuring” bullshit that so-called “transvestigators” do would be absolutely hilarious to other primates because we invented this four hour long Voight-Kampff test since males aren’t literally three times the size, with a nose like a tomato.