7. I am sorry that people have to suffer because of repressive busybodies who have a ridiculously narrow outlook on life (yes, that's you, evangullibles and maga).
Did you stumble over the words sorry and suffer or glide right over them? For some people "suffer" is a pale approximation of what they are going or may go through at the hands of a rough society, but I chose not to go into gory detail of what that might be since as only an ally I'm not the one to explain that so I didn't.
Of course it is not easy being trans anywhere anytime but likely worse in USA in next four years.
Allies are not forcing people into closets, bigots are. I wrote carefully so you can't find any point in my post that suggests in the slightest that people vilified by tRump should shut up or hide or change appearance. If they decide to do so, that is their decision and might be a wise one for personal safety. If they decide to NOT do so, that is their decision and might be a wise one for leading the movement and society by example. Whatever they decide, they remain themselves. Clear enough for you?
I wrote the post as a counter to tRump's bogus idea that declaring "there are only two genders" somehow makes trans go away, countered most directly by my point #2. External definitions do not fundamentally change who a person is inside, where it counts. The rest just sort of flowed out. Sorry.
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