"For over a decade, I've written publicly about being transgender. Since 2013, my words about transition, identity, and the fight for basic dignity have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vice, and other publications. I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance. That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they'd stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns."
"Now, approaching 40 years old, I watch as Donald Trump has returned to office with an explicit promise to erase trans people from public life. He calcified his campaign-trail hate speech into an executive order. His allies have drafted policies to void our passports, ban our healthcare, and make our very existence a legal impossibility. It's the greatest attack on the trans community I've seen in my lifetime."
After a presidential win many transgender people renewed essential documents out of fear of future restrictions. For over a decade, public words about transition, identity, and the fight for basic dignity appeared in major publications. Visibility was believed to foster acceptance by humanizing trans lives. The return of Donald Trump brought explicit promises and executive actions aimed at erasing trans people from public life, including drafts to void passports, ban healthcare, and legally erase existence. Those measures transformed visibility into potential liability, leaving openly visible trans people to fear that prior openness may now increase personal and legal danger.
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