What is a transgender person to think...when she pours her heart into a Diary about the SCOTUS cases on October 8...that hold her very future in their outcome...and it gets a whopping ten views and 6 replies, counting her own replies to replies….and when I write a Diary about not wanting to participate in the Census as a way to protest the fact that we will NOT be counted as trans in the Census...AS WE WERE PROMISED BY OBAMA WE WOULD BE...gets a mountain of replies...people begging me to fill out the Census...and capitulate in an official report that says I don’t count...that who I REALLY AM does not matter?
Precious little in that Diary was offered by way of what I could do, alternatively to fight the injustice...and precious little care has been shown to the fact that my very rights and future hang in the balance at the Supreme Court.
Try being made “less than” for the bulk of your adult life...having your hopes, your dreams and your future stolen from you for no better reason than the fact that you are transgender. See what that feels like.
No, I just get begged to capitulate to the Census and give them all kinds of information they do not need, right down to what time of the day I take a damn dump...and they can’t COUNT ME AS THE TRANS WOMAN I AM??
No, and hell no.
Try looking at it from my side. Try looking at having your entire life laid waste, basically...opportunity and rights denied you just for being who you are. Then try what it feels like when you get no attention on a Diary about how your life and future and rights hang in the balance...and a deluge on a Diary about the damn Census...and not a damn person offering to help….only begging me to capitulate in an official count that says I do not exist.
I am mad as hell.