Thread by @AlexPetrovnia

The attacks on trans youth are the beginning. Trans people told you this. Now they're moving onto trans adults and cisqueer people as well. Until y'all care enough about trans people to stick up for us, you're only inviting your own pain. They picked their first targets well.

I don't know how to explain the pain it is to be a trans person right now, and watch your friends and coworkers and neighbors not lift a finger as the government works to exterminate you. I haven't begun to process it. But one thing is certain; this is the beginning.

They're coming for you too. For the past 2 years I have been shouting with everything I have for folks to care and constantly have been told I'm overreacting. When will you believe trans people and our warnings? When we're dead? Do we have to die for you to care about our pain?

It's telling, to me, that cis people have far more reverence for the martyrs they make of dead trans people than they have for those of us who are living breathing human beings.
Care about living trans people. Protect us. Defend us. Value us.
We're people, not a morality lesson.

Honor the dead by protecting the living. Please. I'm begging you. Don't look away.
Go to transformationsproject.org to contact your reps about anti-trans legislation in your state. Speak up about this crisis. Get other cis people to care. You're our only hope.

If you ever wondered what you would do when the government started exterminating a minority group, wake up. It's happening now. All the education you ever had about fascism and all the thought experiments you've had about how you'd be a better person than the citizens of Germany?

Now is the time. It's happening now.
They came for trans people first in Germany as well.

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