Now We See Who Got Our Backs

We are being singled out by the current administration in a “divide and conquer” strategy and we will learn who has our backs.

This article is 6 months old but it still is relevant.

A Trans Plea to the L,G,B, and Q: Help Us
What will you do to save your brothers and sisters?
The Advocate
By Amanda Kerri
October 22, 2018

There will be a thousand articles written about Trump’s plan to make it government policy that transgender people don’t exist. Some will explain what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how. Some will attack conservatives and Trump, some will attack those who enabled and empowered them through inaction or lack of concern for anyone but themselves. I can’t write those articles.

I already wrote them. I’ve already called the GOP a hate group, I’ve already called out hypocritical allies, I’ve gone after people condoning casual transphobia, warned of radical evangelicals changing the government, and I’ve laid into “progressives” who will throw us under the bus. Almost to the day, I warned about the “unpersoning” of trans people by the Trump administration a full year ago. To borrow a phrase from black folks, “We done told y’all.”

But here we are. The End. It’s not about bathrooms or celebrities, it’s not about pronouns or dating or anything of the sort, it’s just the end of us. Trump’s government is going to make it state policy that we simply do not exist. Literally every right and protection we had won before is gone. No, this is not hyperbole, we are not overreacting, this is their stated goal and not even in vague terms. We are not trying to distract you from something else, we are not trying to divide the left, we are just trying to survive. You have to understand, this isn’t just going to force us into the wrong bathrooms; people will be able to deny us medical care, access to homeless shelters, the right to work and put food in our mouths.

Yesterday I wrote about the “Log Cabin Republicans” who put their pocketbooks ahead of their rights and they not only threw us under the bus for money but also other lesbians, gays, bi, and queers.

We have seen lesbians and gays who say we should be in sports.

We have seen lesbians and gays who deny our right to exists.

But there are many, many more that have our backs.

I have seen lesbians jump all over another lesbians for saying derogatory things about us. I have been welcomed into the homes of other lesbians. I have many gay friends who stood up for me.

One time when I was leaving a late night LGBT function I was standing in the doorway looking at a bar that I had to walk past to get to the parking garage and there were all dunking men outside at the tables. A group of 4 or 5 lesbians were also leaving and they saw what I was looking at, and one put her arm in mine, together we walked by the dunking men. Yes they did harass us as we walked by making rude comments but the women had my back.

I guess what I am saying is done paint every lesbian women and gay men with a broad brush.

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Today I am up at the True Color conference at UConn main campus in Storrs and I will be doing a workshop on Trans History with a friend.

The conference is the largest LGBT conference in the world! Over 3500 hundred people attend the two day conference with most of the attendees come on Friday. About 2500 people come on Friday.