If you know someone who's transgender, please check in on them.
We're not doing OK.
The US has gone to absolute shit, and is on the no fly list for many of us. I know friends who have cancelled business trips, or even moving out there because of the recent attempts to remove our legal recognition and hard won rights.
The stonewall monument, the site of the start of the civil rights movement for LGBT people has had all mention of the trans people so intrinsically involved, just deleted. Marsha P Johnson? Sylvia Rivera? Just deleted from the history records.
Books even hinting at LGBT people or other minorities are being banned and pulled from public libraries and schools.
Last time this happened to this extent? 1933 when all the research from the first gender clinic was burnt int he street, yet a very well known children's author says that was a "fever dream".
Any mention of anything even tangentially related to trans people gets bombarded with hatred, and misinformation.
A recent news article about a whale with intersex traits was full of "ONLY TWO GENDERS" and "TRANS PEOPLE ARE A SIN" replies.
Transgender people are vilified for using a toilet, and this is not just hurting us, many cisgender people are subject to transphobic abuse too. Transphobia just upholds the systems that hurt everyone.
It's not just the US, the UK supreme court is ruling, next week, on whether trans women are legally recognised as women.
I don't even want to think what things are going to be like if they rule that we're not.
Trans people are not doing OK.
Please check in on your trans friends and family.