Thread by @bpagelsminor

One of the most challenging parts of the last month is the sheer number of trolls who have targeted me. Logically, I understood that these people exist but it still boggles my mind that there are people who spends minutes, hours and days debating everything from

My mental health, whether I am a real person, how I can be pregnant, why I identify as both trans nonbinary and a lesbian. I honestly just don't understand how folks find the time to spend this much time on me

Moreover, we’ve started to get more concerning threats necessitating that we hire teams to provide security including monitoring threats against us. And the threats aren't even about the special the are about #Cuties and that conspiracy.

I don't regret coming forward. I don't regret putting a face forward to what it means to be Black and trans. I don't regret putting a face to what it means to Trans and pregnant. I don’t regret taking up space and ensuring myself and others are heard. #translivesmatter

What I am though is truly sad at the state of this country where there is a sheer lack of curiosity amongst people. I often say I have a Ph.D in what whiteness looks like, what the cisgender experience is, what the appeal of conservatism is not because they are my own experience

But because to not investigate & acknowledge the differences between myself and others does a disservice in the ultimate goal in creating a just and equitable world. How would I know what I and others who love and look like me deserve without first understanding the differences?

In final, I am undeterred. I am encouraged. I am buoyed by this work. @RainofTerra and I constantly told our colleagues and now tell the world that this is a marathon. #netflixwalkout

A marathon that will lead to a world that ensures that people like us can see ourselves reflected as the whole, amazing, and dynamic individuals that we are. We are humans who refuse to just endure and in many ways reflect the very best of humanity.

For #trans folks are a special sort living at the intersection of the transformational power of hope, love, and truthfulness.

“Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unraveling of the untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons. A complete uprooting, before becoming.” ~ Erickson