With Donald Trump in power, trans people are preparing for the worst

[Jessica_Rose]

With Donald Trump in power, trans people are preparing for the worst

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-donald-trump-in-power-trans-people-are-preparing-for-the-worst/ar-AA1y8jbz?ocid=windirect&cvid=322c67fceb1845e8a774b169e91bba77&ei=32

Story by Elsie Carson-Holt (30 Jan 2025)

"The anti-trans rhetoric and violence against me and others in our community have escalated since the election," Ash Lazarus Orr (he/they) told LGBTQ Nation. "I've dealt with a stalker, death threats, physical and verbal assaults, including at the state capitol."

He doesn't want to leave their home state of West Virginia, but he doesn't feel like he has a choice. Orr, an organizer and activist who works for Advocates for Trans Equality, is trans. He has witnessed the place he grew up become increasingly hostile to trans people like them, and with the election of Donald Trump, feels like he no longer has a choice.

Independent journalist Erin Reed has listed Florida and Texas as "do not travel" states due to laws that call for either the arrest or bounty of trans people using bathrooms different than those assigned to their gender at birth.

"I would not choose, in a vacuum, to travel to most of the South, a lot of the Midwest."

"We want anti-trans politicians and their allies to understand that trans people are not the enemy. We are your friends, neighbors, and family members. We work in your schools, hospitals, and businesses, and we organize and volunteer in our communities. Like everyone else, we simply want to live our lives with freedom, dignity, and respect."

[Miharu Barbie]

Wow, Jessica Rose! It has only been 12 days since the inauguration. I mean, seriously, how much pain are we the American people prepared to endure before we begin to stand up to our tyrannical government? We are no longer dealing with a US President; we are now dealing with a US Tyrant.

This is not what I sacrificed years of my life in the US Army to defend. Just because the election is behind us does not in any way suggest that we have no say in how our immediate future unfolds.

Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn. I am absolutely in FIGHT mode! I know I am not alone.

🏴�☠️
Miharu

[Lori Dee]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The Declaration of Independence, In Congress, July 4, 1776

[Jessica_Rose]

Our community and our allies are significantly outnumbered by the number of people who are either pushing for these changes, or who simply don't care. Even my dad, who supported me, was eager to see this new administration come to power. Hopefully the next election cycle will help, but we're going to have a rough few years. Find your support structures, and batten down the hatches.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Lori Dee]

I'll have to find my old T-shirt that reads:

"Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him."

[Sephirah]

I'm trying really hard to not say anything about this because I am very opinionated on the subject, as you probably know.

I will bite my tongue, other than to say thank you for your service, Miharu and Lori, and everyone else who served to fight for the ideals this cretin and his cronies want to put in the trash. And... the majority of people who did vote for him... you deserve everything you get. He didn't seize power. Which is the saddest thing, and shows just how broken a lot of people are.

The dude didn't even want to attend a remembrance service for fallen heroes because it was raining, last time you voted him in. That's the limits of his compassion towards those who spilled blood in the pursuit of what is right.

[Jessica_Rose]

'So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause' - Revenge of the Sith

https://www.starwars.com/video/so-this-is-how-liberty-dies

[Sephirah]

Oderint, dum metuant.

Let them hate me, so that they will but fear me.

A quote from the Roman Emperor Caligula. Another tyrant of history.

I just find it so sad that the millions of lives you folks in the US gave to fight against Hitler and Mussolini, now you vote these people into your highest offices. Because he promises to make your bread a dollar cheaper and take all the boogeymen out of your country. Because it's always easier to blame someone else.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Okay, I'm done. We are no better in the UK. Nigel Farage and his UK Reform party are snapping at the heels of our government. Incidentally, that dude is one of Trump's best friends. Populism has gripped the planet. Doesn't matter what's right, only what makes you feel good.

Gob zipped.

Other than to say you are all welcome round my house for a cup of finest Colombian coffee.

[Miharu Barbie]

I've been singing to myself all day today. (My coworkers might be thinking that I've lost it.)

"When they come for me I'll be sitting at my desk
"With a gun in my hand wearing a bulletproof vest
"Singing my, my, my, how the time does fly
"When you know you're gonna die by the end of the night
"Oh yeah!"
      Keasbey Nights by Catch 22