- Joined
- Jan 8, 2020
If you are straight and cisgendered, over the next few years you may start seeing and hearing LGBTQ people a lot less.
It may be very gradual and subtle, and therefore hard for you to notice.
So, I'm going to say now, while you can still see and hear me- this was deliberate.
Do not for one moment allow yourself to believe that LGBTQ people simply lost a taste for "identity politics" or that LGBTQ identities were a phase or a fad.
They're driving us out with laws and violence and, perhaps soon, violent laws.
Perhaps there's more you could or should be doing about this, but maybe you, like me, are racking your brain and feeling helpless.
One thing you can do is cement the truth in your mind of what is hapening. When the time comes at least you can tell the truth to your children.
I've been accused of being too negative, and that's fair enough.
But what I see is mainstream news outlets who 5 yrs ago would run a story like "First Openly Trans Woman Does X" aren't running those stories. But they are running "Shouldn't There Be Less Trans People, Maybe?"
Trans journalists are leaving journalism or going private if they have a big enough audience. I know bc I'm one of them. Can't place stories, not as much interest.
This isn't a prediction for something that might happen. It's happening already, I'm trying to help you notice.
It may be very gradual and subtle, and therefore hard for you to notice.
So, I'm going to say now, while you can still see and hear me- this was deliberate.
Do not for one moment allow yourself to believe that LGBTQ people simply lost a taste for "identity politics" or that LGBTQ identities were a phase or a fad.
They're driving us out with laws and violence and, perhaps soon, violent laws.
Perhaps there's more you could or should be doing about this, but maybe you, like me, are racking your brain and feeling helpless.
One thing you can do is cement the truth in your mind of what is hapening. When the time comes at least you can tell the truth to your children.
I've been accused of being too negative, and that's fair enough.
But what I see is mainstream news outlets who 5 yrs ago would run a story like "First Openly Trans Woman Does X" aren't running those stories. But they are running "Shouldn't There Be Less Trans People, Maybe?"
Trans journalists are leaving journalism or going private if they have a big enough audience. I know bc I'm one of them. Can't place stories, not as much interest.
This isn't a prediction for something that might happen. It's happening already, I'm trying to help you notice.
