Finding Hope And Spring On Transgender Day Of Visibility The past three months have been brutal for transgender people—but if there’s one thing our community knows, it’s how to travel through darkness to find spring.

1. Six years ago, during the hardest winter of my life, I found myself again. A month later, I found myself again, under a cherry blossom tree.

On Trans Day of Visibility this year, we travel through our toughest winter.

But we know the promise of spring.

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— it’s torture. Full stop. Especially for our kids.

It is sick.

It is amoral.

It is utterly unforgivable.

For shame. For absolute, horrifying shame.

Anyone complicit in this deserves what they will get when the history books line them up as the worst human beings who ever lived. They are that.

Seattle Children’s Postpones Trans Teen’s Surgery Indefinitely Seattle Children’s Hospital postponed a transgender teen’s masculinizing top surgery only hours before it was scheduled allegedly to comply with one of President Donald Trump’s execu...

Shameful

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Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.

The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.

This one at UVA Hospital.

"We have to allow this [org/shelter/hospital/school] to erase the trans community and comply to save everyone else"

Absolutely not.

I will not allow my community to be jettisoned to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.

But we are all in this together.

Neither the stroke of a pen nor the pounding of a gavel can erase transgender people. They have always existed. They always will.