wilder

I actually knew what my name was going to be more than a decade before I transitioned. The first time I had ever heard it I sort of latched onto it, somehow I never met anyone else with the name (it's not a particularly uncommon name) but it always stuck with me.

So when I started thinking about socially transitioning it was sort of a no-brainer, it felt like my "real" name had been there waiting for me all along. I know that must sound trite and cliche and not at all helpful but it was a really affirming moment in the process for me.

Don't forget a box of those Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches, I'm tired of oatmeal for breakfast.

Privileged liberals and moral grandstanding over people who didn't vote for their dogshit candidate, truly a tale as old as time.

What’s fair about telling a sixteen year old who’s been on hormones for a few months/years that they can’t play sports anymore unless it’s with their assigned sex at birth?

What’s fair about being the only girl on the boys soccer team and not being able to socialize with other girls in sports? Is it so important that high school sports are as biologically “fair” as possible (even though there is no such thing in either men’s or women’s sports) that we must ensure trans teenagers are completely ostracized, singled out, and unable to integrate with other students of their gender?

There were less trans athletes in the NCAA last year than there are students in the average high school classroom, do you think it’s important that we litigate the fairness of allowing them to compete on a national political stage? Do you think, maybe, that this whole issue is just a Trojan horse so the average person who has no opinion on trans people is made to think about them in the context of “protecting women from men”?

Or are you just carrying water for bigots who want to litigate trans people out of existence?

Sorry you can't get literally every single thing you want right this minute. I think that was supposed to be learned in fucking kindergarten.

I didn’t realize it was childish and unreasonable to want to be treated as a person with the same rights and protections as everyone else.

So how long should we throw trans people under the bus (or on the bus) before things move left enough for me to feel safe in public?

How long should we accept our status as oppressed and targeted minorities to appeal to all the imaginary “moderate” conservatives who haven’t flipped an election since the 90s?

One more question: do any of these things directly affect you at all, or do you just want the people who are affected to stop complaining about it because it’s a political liability?

Great, now I have to duck when I walk in the chat.