Yeah, they want us gone, they want me gone, they want to erase us from existence

A drawing of people standing behind a long horizontal transgender pride flag.

Published May 29, 2025

We meant it. We weren’t being “hysterical” when we told you. They want us gone.

Eradicated. Erased.

As Katelyn Burns asks in her column hyperlinked above, when is enough enough?

The message, therefore, is clear: Either detransition or potentially die. That’s the decision this Republican government would be forcing upon post-op trans people who rely on Medicaid, unless they can manage to pay for treatment themselves or access illegal and unregulated sources for the hormones their bodies rely on to function. Trans people who haven’t yet completed genital reconstructive surgery face a similar choice, though being forced off lifesaving hormone replacement therapy is potentially deadly in another way. When denied gender-affirming care, trans people are at an elevated risk of suicidality. A more chilling thought is whether this might suit Republicans’ purposes just fine, given years of measures taken to push trans people out of society.

From the same column:

If we don’t say anything about this, or take any steps to fight back, or even start questioning the right-wing rhetoric on trans issues, one day you all will wake up and realize there are no more trans people living publicly around you.

I’m begging you, I’m begging Democrats, I’m begging anyone with a conscience: Please stop this. We are running out of time.

It’s been more than four months since I sounded the loudest alarm I have. What more do you need to see and hear?

My long-term disability claim is pending. If I “win,” I get 50 percent pay. Should I save every penny and move out of the country? Things are grim.

If you care at all about actual human beings, please call and fight for us before the Senate votes. Please.

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I don’t hold out much hope.

Political cartoon. 1. Trump says, "The world is flat." 2. GOP Congress says, "Agreed!" 3. The National Science Foundation says, "False." 4. Trump says, "Cut the National Science Foundation."

When we do what they say to do, when we use the bathroom they insist that we use, they still detain us.

1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use.

Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so.

The latest from S. Baum.

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