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Is there any hope? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works to c/asktransgender@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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2026 Saw a bunch of states end the ability to update gender markers, with Kansas even revoking driver's licenses. The attacks from the Right are constant. We are being dehumanized and I just learned what V-Coding is....

The horrible things they're doing to our sisters in Federal Prison...

I fear in Trump's America, we are set to be dehumanized, criminalized, mocked, and sexually exploited. I worry that the fight for trans rights can only end in failure as the public turns on us for being too strange and too small in number to be worth caring about.

They call us pedophiles even as more of the Epstein files come out and reveal this is only true of Trump himself.

Leaving the country even seems unlikely as we're not allowed to have passports.

Is there any hope that we prevail in the future? Or are we absolutely fucked with the only hope that MAYBE, just MAYBE, Canada allows us to seek asylum.

I'm trying to hold on, but I'm beyond terrified and I just don't see any happy ending for us.

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The 4th Circuit just ruled that states have a duty to ban gender affirming care to help people "accept their birth sex"

So I sincerely doubt it.

I honestly think this ends horribly for all of us..

There's just no way to get the general public jazzed up about our rights. We're too few and too "strange"

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Listen, you gotta quit the doomscrolling and focus on your local community once you get an understanding of the news for the day/week. I thought the same way as you until I did that, constantly downing hate-click news stories does exactly what they aim to do: get your ad revenue and make you feel hopeless.

Most people dont give a fuck that trans people exist, and will step up to bat if someone they know is being discriminated against. I live in bumfuck nowhere-ville in the USA, and I know most of the folks in town would be upset if something happened to my gf and I because of our identities, were all people at the end of the day. Knowing your neighbors and being respectful goes a very long way, especially in the isolated world we live in these days.

Those in power think they can "solve the trans ""issue"". just like they tried to solve the black "issue" or the gay "issue", and we know how that went.

We will persist, we have existed since the idea of gender was constructed. Its a safer time than ever in modern human history to be trans, and the people who dont like that are using us being able to get the care we need to line their pockets and feed the war machine.

We will prevail, even if things get worse before they get better.