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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] 5 points 22 hours ago

The sad truth is that the Democrats were never your friend. They treated your existence as political capital, and betrayed you the second it was inconvenient for them. They are cowards of the highest order who've only ever had the goal of enriching themselves. To some of us, this has been true for awhile, but this was really the election where everyone's taken their mask off.

I would seriously, very strongly urge you to get out of the country while you still can. There is no sugarcoating it; things are going to get bad in the U.S. Even if you aren't subject to government violence, Trump blackshirts just got released back onto the street and have been emboldened by this victory. Hate crimes will rise, just as they rose dramatically during the first Trump term. There will be camps, first used on immigrants but there's no telling when they'll stop. Do whatever it takes to leave. Your survival is more important than any unjust laws.

I can't promise the grass will be that much greener when you leave; fascism is rising across the globe and trans people are an unfortunately easy marginalized community to otherize and attack. At the very least, you might have a chance to stop it taking root somewhere else.