#im like sobbing rn i already heard the story a bunch of times across socials but

[coridallasmultipass]

TW venting about that trans kid that got killed

I guess one of the things that sickens me the most about that student that died after being brutally beaten in the school bathroom is that

That kid is dead.

And the ones that beat them up still get to live and go on with their life. They got what they wanted.

That kid that got killed is never gonna live to fight back. Because they're already dead.

There are people in government banning and legislating what bathrooms trans people can use because of some evil spectre of a trans villain going after their daughters when it's demonstrably the opposite: cis people are the ones bullying and fucking murdering innocent trans people for using a bathroom. Any bathroom. It doesn't matter which one we use. Because we're not safe anywhere.

Trans people are killed simply for existing.

The news just said something like "we don't know how exactly they identified, just that they weren't cis" and guess what? We will NEVER find out. Because they never got the chance to explore that and learn more about themself in order to share that info with other people, and that fucking hurts to think about. It hurts so bad, because I'm trans and in the closet, and if I die, no one will ever know, because I don't have friends IRL. I would have a funeral of less than 10 relatives in attendance, and not a single person would use the right name or pronouns.

I fucking hate being trans in America. It sucks to be trans everywhere else, too, I'm sure. It sucks to be trans when the world wants to legislate your existence away as just some sinister delusion.

I hope that kid's family gets some kind of justice, even in just some small way.

Real justice would have been preventing the climate that allowed this to happen (to keep happening) in the first place. But it feels like we're never gonna reach that in our lifetime. Every small step forward is paved in trans blood so thick we end up slipping two steps back.

It's always "protect kids" until a trans kid is forced to use one bathroom, or hurt, or killed. Then it's "thoughts and prayers" and immediately back to business 'protecting' kids from the evil queers. I fucking hate this.

I'm reminded of the post I've seen multiple times, "If you're trans, you have to live. If you can do nothing else, that's all you have to do."