what's not going to happen:
- blanket ban on prescribing HRT
- rounding up / mass arrests of trans people
what likely will:
- increase in anti-trans stochastic violence
- loss or even reversal of legal recognition (passports)
- medicare/medicaid exclusions on trans care
I would come out here and say "hold on people, we're better than this, love wins etc." but im not sure we actually are. Are we? you might be but.... look around. we're a two-faced ass country - and our leadership is on the moon, in a gil scott way.
You’re going to see a lot of people talk about community and I want to remind you that community doesn’t mean big or large, it means people who are intentionally invested in your well-being.
Your friend group of two or three people is also a community.
Honestly what did we really expect? People aren't even living in reality anymore. Ignoring a pandemic, ignoring genocide, ignoring the climate crisis. Ignoring problems begets more problems. This is the obvious progression of that.
Many people will continue struggling to come to terms with the election results, but there’s still a lot you can do:
1) Be irritable at work
2) Withdraw from people who love you/need you
3) Make an impulsive and self destructive major life decision
every time someone says “you’ll figure it out, you always do :)” to me the rage burns hotter in my chest. do you know how much work goes into figuring it out???? do you know how tired I am of ALWAYS having to figure it out by myself???