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Why did America betray us? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stop thinking it's anything you or the community did, for starters. Fascists need an enemy, someone to punch down on and bond their group around shared hatred of those that are different.

That's what's at play here, to be in the crowd you have to hate, and a lot of people want to be in the crowd because of the price of eggs or whatever.

Oppressing minorities then becomes an easy win for their group, with something as dumb as an "official gender policy" being a major day one initiative.

It used to just be gay identifying people in general, but I think too many of their friends and family came out previously, making that a difficult collective to rally around. And other minorities before this. I'm sorry your community have found yourselves as the scapegoats this time around.