"Transphobia is rife. I knew it, and now that I've begun the process of coming out, I feel it. Interestingly, I have never felt ashamed of myself, but never have I been the subject of attempts to shame me. As I increasingly come to recognise myself, there are so many who refuse to see me. Trans people, our allies, and those who oppose us are at an impasse."
"Every day, alarming news stories reinforce our justified sense of being othered and targeted, heightening our states of hypervigilance. A doom scrolling session will confirm that the transphobes are not changing their minds-or if they are, they are quiet about it. In fact, it feels like they are doubling down. Meanwhile, we are taking stock, gathering allies. We are pulling our found families closer, increasing our safety networks and enhancing our hormone-seeking black market know-how, homebrewing technologies, and setting up our surgery fundraisers."
A trans person coming out at age 40 as nonbinary trans masc describes escalating transphobia, social exclusion, and vitriolic reactions from former friends alongside moments of affirmation. Organisations have moved to ban trans women and girls, increasing a sense of being othered and hypervigilance. Communities respond by gathering allies, strengthening found-family networks, and developing informal means of accessing hormones and surgeries, including black-market knowledge, homebrewing, and fundraisers. The narrator calls for confronting the psychological chasm between trans people, allies, and opponents, urging honest examination of fears and shared monsters and the courage to face self-reflection.
Read at Advocate.com
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