Thread by @AlexPetrovnia

I am so tired of being asked to help cis people cope with my existence.

I’m busy coping with my existence, and more importantly, I’m busy coping with the active vitriol cis people have towards my existence.
How dare you ask me to help you cope with me deigning to exist.

I don’t exist for you. I don’t exist for anyone but myself. And I am so tired of being treated as public property simply because I make cis people uncomfortable.

I don’t want quips or comebacks. I don’t want every moment of people interacting me to have to be a fight.
I cannot express how tiring it is to have to choose to laugh because the only other option is to want to lie down and die.

I don’t exist to fight.
Having to prove to every single person you meet that you are worthy of every breath you take, of the space you take up, of being allowed to be near other human beings — is an indescribable grief.

So yes. I try to laugh, and have comebacks, and add trans joy to the world.
But understand — really sit with the reality — that all of that is a shield.
Every move I make, on this app and beyond, is calculated to prove to cis people that I am worth living.

I’m no stranger to mental health struggles. I’m no stranger to arguing for my right to exist, even to myself.
But how dare you ask me to make you feel better about your inability to treat me as a human being, or your inability to look me in the eyes as you watch me suffer?

Call your goddamned reps.

If you relate to this, please know this exists;

https://twitter.com/alexpetrovnia/status/1404645262585434118