You know what trans liberation is?
It’s not trans people being allowed to serve in the military, or work as cops. It’s not trans judges. It’s not creating Byzantine, draconian pathways to medicines and procedures and name changes. It’s not Joe Biden entertaining wealthy trans people at the White House, or your State Governor appearing with a few trans people when they sign a bill. It’s not trans lawmakers.
You know what trans liberation is?
It’s the decriminalization of trans existence. It’s the 5 Black trans women in Milwaukee, WI who should all still be alive. It’s the demedicalization of trans bodies, with free and easy access to the medical science created to serve people like us. It’s community organizing. It’s dismantling capitalism, so trans people do have to choose between hormones and rent. It’s the elimination of rent. It’s letting people do what they want with their bodies, when they want, and how they want.
We will never have trans liberation in a neoliberal, White supremacist, cishetero imperialist patriarchy.
The systems must change. This new world must, at all costs, be born.
We can start now.