on april 12th it was my two year anniversary of starting HRT! here's a before to after!! i'm so much happier with myself, i'm more confident with friends, i actually see me in the mirror! sheri! that's me!!
and uh. on april 14th my state announced its intent to outlaw me and pretty much every other trans person in missouri from taking HRT
so. two years of change on me and yet the world left me behind, running in the other direction to oldschool trans panic nonsense. obviously this isn't an outlier in the united states at the moment. florida, texas, tennessee? what do all these states have in common?
if your answer was "run by right-wing nutjobs", i mean sure i guess but more pressingly, "have a lot of trans people despite what you may hear"
see isn't it funny that low-income housing is where a lot of us ended up? funny little coincidence im sure. anyways, my little slice of hell has double digits trans folks i've met in person just in passing, and more still who i'm sure are, like me, too scared to go outside
into a state that is actively criminalizing them
now, is the answer to move? it shouldn't fucking have to be! but any trans person with the means to move somewhere that is at least less likely to actively kill them and wants to, all the power to you! but i
i actually like it here. i like my friends, i like my city. i want it to get better. people live in shitty states, and the solution to their states claiming their existence is in violation of their preferred reality shouldn't be to validate them
they want us to just leave, or die before we can. closet, casket, or canada, you choose!
but there should be trans people staying here to prove that, despite what our governor and AG claim, we do exist. we're not monsters. i make funny videos about video game philosophy. my trans friends around here are artists, activists, city employees, healthcare workers
i'd rather not all of us be replaced by the exact kind of bigots who'd prefer us gone. so i'm gonna stick around and fight for my right to be alive.
see you in two years when i'm arguing for my right to not be actively hunted.
