I’ve accepted that I am probably going to get picked up/disappeared at some point in the next few months. My therapists and I have discussed what to do should I not show up for an appointment - the ways that I’d like my art and books to be preserved.
It’s somewhat freeing. The barbarians are at the gates, and this is the time to prove that my human spirit is not less because of my transsexuality. If the Empire didn’t exist, then there would be no rebels to fight it.
The way I see it, their goal isn’t to directly kill you. It’s to make life so hard, you do it yourself. The best way to fight back is to keep going no matter what they try to do
I feel that their tactics will be more insidious than rounding up trans people. They will slowly boil the frog by making it increasingly difficult for trans people to reliably maintain a HRT regimen, access therapy, surgical services, etc. They’ll attempt to criminalize doctors helping. They are of the view that it’s a mental illness and they’ll do everything in their power to construct conditions that will make it impossible for trans people to function in society.
Your existence is itself a revolutionary act. Thanks for being true to yourself. As things are getting worse I refuse to eliminate the hope that it can get better. I’m sorry you’re one of those that have to bear the brunt of the inhumanity.
The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.
Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.
I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).
I’ve accepted that I am probably going to get picked up/disappeared at some point in the next few months. My therapists and I have discussed what to do should I not show up for an appointment - the ways that I’d like my art and books to be preserved.
It’s somewhat freeing. The barbarians are at the gates, and this is the time to prove that my human spirit is not less because of my transsexuality. If the Empire didn’t exist, then there would be no rebels to fight it.
The way I see it, their goal isn’t to directly kill you. It’s to make life so hard, you do it yourself. The best way to fight back is to keep going no matter what they try to do
I feel that their tactics will be more insidious than rounding up trans people. They will slowly boil the frog by making it increasingly difficult for trans people to reliably maintain a HRT regimen, access therapy, surgical services, etc. They’ll attempt to criminalize doctors helping. They are of the view that it’s a mental illness and they’ll do everything in their power to construct conditions that will make it impossible for trans people to function in society.
Your existence is itself a revolutionary act. Thanks for being true to yourself. As things are getting worse I refuse to eliminate the hope that it can get better. I’m sorry you’re one of those that have to bear the brunt of the inhumanity.
The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.
Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.
I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).
The system is already set up where I live.