I’ve seen how communities of 20 raised thousands and a groups of 10 patrolling the streets for weeks. We need to fall back in towards community, towards mutual aid, towards sharing our wealth and not hoarding it.

There’s enough for us all but we have been trained to believe there can never be.

Don’t just be aware. Know the pain, the daily endurance of trans people.
The constant hate and lies we must combat. The uncertainty of leaving the house because of how we present. The desire to just be.

This trans awareness week, pay a trans person. And if you love us, fight like hell for us.

So what are you doing, the cis people, watching this unfold?
Do you understand the intersectionality of our existence? We see the gays strut, take from our community, and then claim the world would better if we weren’t so loud.
But what is liberation if we aren’t loud?
Why live if we can’t be?

10. Looking at changing the Olympics to exclude women in a transphobic and racist way
11. Making queer inclusion, especially trans inclusion, in books an issue when it wasn’t
12. Pushing to designate us, trans people, as violent extremists

The list goes on. They want us institutionalized, dead.

4. Erasure of our stories from libraries
5. Supreme Court ruling against gender marker changes for our passports.
6. Anti trans slogans constantly used in politics.
7. Being blamed for a cutting of SNAP benefits.
8. Banning our access to restrooms.
9. Constantly attack our athletes
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