Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2025

It's Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Let us remember that they came for trans people first, and we didn't even make the fucking poem.

Trans people have been discriminated against in one way or another for a long time, it's still possible in many places to claim "transgender panic" if you kill one of us. The mortality rate for trans people is astronomical, and yet we are less than 1% of the population.

The right has put trans people front and center in our media, disproportionately representing us as a massive threat to their homogenous (and frankly, boring) idea of a perfect society. And while we aren't massive in population in any way, we are a threat to that ideal. And that's good. We represent a possible future where anyone can be whoever they fucking want, without societal expectations of who we're "supposed to be" getting in the way.

Fuck my privilege, I'd rather be a girl.

Remember those who lost their lives, whether forced to take it themselves by being refused gender affirming care, or by outside forces, to get to the point where people like me can post openly about being trans and how excited it makes us. And own it. Living quietly, if you don't have to for your own safety's sake, gives them power.

So, in order to enhance the memory of those lost, I am going to be loudly, proudly trans, and I refuse to be anyone else but me ever again. I hope that our world becomes safe enough so that every trans person can join me in that one day.