Missing in a lot of the debate around Trans healthcare and trans youth’s healthcare in @glaad’s letter to the @nytimes is the matter of cis and straight peoples Disgust / Revulsion / “ick factor” at LGBTQ people’s bodies, sex lives, and gender presentation. A thread 🧵 (1/11) As background: I’m a 40 year old trans woman - I transitioned at 15 in 1997 - I’ve been an activist since then; a long damn time in trans 🏳️‍⚧️ years. Long before trans youth were visible or the norm - I’ve seen and heard it all in the last 25 years of activism. Me in HS (2/11)

There is a concerted effort to fear mongering about the “dreaded Delta Variant” and it’s getting old. The boy who cried wolf 🐺. The mRNA vaccines continue to have extremely strong efficacy against hospitalizations and death. Period.
thelancet.com/journals/lance… We have entered a moment of 2 large camps I’ve seen endlessly in public health: CAMP 1 - 100% risk averse, purity, perfection, and elimination is the only end point. CAMP 2 - Vaccines don’t work, COVID isn’t a threat, it’s all an experiment 🧪‘ conspiracy theories.