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It often feels like mainstream acceptance of queer people, particularly trans and nonbinary people, is contingent on there being few of us. When I was a kid witnessing arguments about gay marriage, statistics about LGBTQ people were so often presented in such a way as to reassure everyone else that we are not dangerous because we are rare. "It's not going to cause societal collapse ... because such a small percentage of people are gay."

And conservative rhetoric against queer people, particularly trans people, which explicitly refers to us as a "social contagion," really underscores that any perceived "increase" in sexual or gender diversity will be seen as a threat. If queer people are permitted to exist, we must be aberrant and isolated. If we are normal and natural and commonly occurring, it is because something has gone terribly wrong.

So. Forgive me if I bristle at the well-meaning argument that "these trans athlete bans are ridiculous, they're only going to affect a few dozen people!" I understand where they're coming from. But I think trans people should be free and abundant.

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Ah yes, the 3 genders. Male, female, and “what the fuck are you, a cop?”

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i miss the era where rapist and pedophile men were rounded up and slaughtered at a festival in honor of the goddess artemis, protector of girls

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Hope is like the sun.

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things i seek in 2018;

falling in love again, lots of books, endless cups of coffee, vacations, journals filled with poetry & stories, saving money, purging out toxic people & embracing the love around me in friends & family, working hard at my job, blooming into who i’m meant to be.

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OK, but what if there were nightclubs that instead of being dark and full of techno music were warmly lit and played classical music and everyone came dressed really nice and ballroom danced.

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by butterfly

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Everything has changed and yet, I am more than I’ve ever been.

Iain Thomas; I Wrote This For You (via sunsetquotes)

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you’re not selfish for wanting to be treated well

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I don't miss you, I miss the idea of you.

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