Here’s an idea: You don’t get to decide if being trans is normal or fine. You don’t get to decide how others choose to live their life or express themselves. You don’t know the struggles that we go through; the hate we have to deal with daily.

Walk a mile in our shoes. We now have to worry about people following us into bathrooms. Our access to medical care and resources, as grown adults, is somehow up for debate. We’ve been scrubbed from nearly all federal websites. We are being removed from anti-discrimination policies, and for what purpose? What good does that do?

There is a reason why our suicide rates are so high. The lack of acceptance by our own families, by the nation we were taught in school is the greatest on earth.

We are defensive because we are afraid that we will be pushed to the edge of society—back into the shadows—because people are uncomfortable with us.

We deserve the same life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that any American deserves. I am a goddamn American citizen, born and raised, and I feel like this country would rejoice if I were dead.

My ex said to me, upon finding out that I wasn’t straight: What if our son grows up to be not straight? I told her: I hope he grows up to be straight. I don’t wish the evils of this world upon him, just for being who he is.

That was a truly sad day for me.

Being a patriot means fighting for ALL Americans, not just those that you believe deserve it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Edit: I may have bitten the onion. I really hope this post was meant as satire. But it’s hard to parse these days.