Monday, November 11, 2024

We Are All On Edge.

I’ve been looking for non-election trans news and there isn’t any!

Everything about us is about the elections, and that sadly says a lot. On a non-LGBTQ blog that I follow I wrote this comment…
One of my readers, Diana, put it this way in a comment to the previous post:
I can tell you that the transgender community is in shock! I see on Facebook… “I’m scared!” “What do we do now?”
From all the anti-transgender rhetoric that came out of Trump’s campaign, everything from from rolling back non-discrimination laws to banning diversity in the workplace and schools.
The community is worried that this is the start of what happened in the 1930s in Germany. There is talk about fleeing to Canada or some other country. Did you every think that here in America people would be worrying about being persecuted because who they are?
A friend on Facebook told me he’s worried someone close to him is actually contemplating suicide out of a deep level of fear for their own safety.
People are posting about fleeing to another country. People have written that they are going back into the closet. People have written that they are worried about their paper-trail. People are getting their passports update (Including me.).

I think what gets us the most is the unknown. Will we be safe in Blue states? Will we get our healthcare? What about the children?

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be

Songwriters: Raymond B. Evans / Jay Livingston

3 comments:

  1. Over the span of my 66 years, I have at times been mad at my government. I've been discouraged sometimes; disdainful, aggravated, or even outraged.

    But until now, I've never been afraid of my government.

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  2. Men and women who have served in the military, wounded or died did not serve so others can hide from oppressors of free speech. Happy Veterans Day from an infantryman with a Purple Heart w/Oak Leaf Cluster and his army veteran wife.

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  3. Richard Nelson11/11/24, 12:55 PM

    In my long activist life since I was 16 I am now 76, I have wondered what next this government was going to pull. I do not have to wonder about what these fascists are going to pull as it all right there in black and white. Historically they are moving through late 1932, that of writing laws against people (you all get that) and now into the second step of fascism, consolidating the government and making it over to suit themselves. What will the response from the LGBTQI+ community be? I am going to go to the next rally called by those who have been running the show, give me a ha ha, and see what the response will be. I can hear the echos throughout the square. If I feel that it is more of the same blah, blah, then I will close my blog and no longer respond to the movement. I can't stand fluff, trinkets, top down, blowing kisses to cops, rainbow cupcakes and throwing glitter around. That is not anything that will stop the fascists. Nor will declaring Ct. is a safe state, we have your back. Remember one election could do them in and a law is a law on the books one day taken off the next. They all have our back as long as we have a majority. Are the Glitterites worth fighting and dying for. Not in my book. Go over to my blog, www.furbirdsqueerly.wordpress.com and read my thoughts on this deadly state of amerikkka. So, it will be up to each one of us to decide which side of the barricades we come down on.

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