keep calm and carry on
it’s taken me a while to accept this, but any hope of returning to a time like the 2010s in the next few years, when we were debated little more than any other condition is gone. the next time we will be treated as equal and not as second class citizens will be after we have reached rock bottom long enough that we may become a medical curiosity again, and slowly then will our rights be rebuilt. i think it’s going to be hard for a while, and although we can’t control the law and the decisions made by those who don’t understand what dysphoria feels like, we can keep going.
dysphoria is hell, truly; but fighting to feel human in our own bodies for years has given us something. those of us still here have fought the dysphoria demon all of our lives, and the pathetic attempts to hurt us on behalf of the government and the media pale in comparison to what we have already been through just to exist within ourselves.
it may get worse before it gets better, and it may take years, but we won’t back down.
a song by johnny cash for when it feels too hard to keep going: