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My Transgender Solution to Hateful Words
Dancing barefoot in a mimefield.
Sometimes you just need to embrace joy when you can.
I started this story about walking through a societal minefield as a transgender woman.
Watch the news, read a newspaper, and, God forbid, go on the internet, and you find transgender women being accused of assassinations, child grooming, molestations in the ladies’ room, and the collapse of Western Civilization as we know it.
What utter nonsense!
What amazing fabrications and lies!
Hateful statements are shouted with absolutely no facts to back them up. They are screamed endlessly from the mouths of bigots with the blind confidence that only monumental ignorance can support.
I want to stop hearing their voices. They say painful and hateful things that give me an emotional headache.
Like you, I feel like this assault has broken through my traditional walls of resistance. Every day, it feels like the world has added more mines to the field of hate, and I have to navigate through each of them without blowing up.
Since the U.S. Congress and the courts seem incapable of protecting me from this endless stream of hate, I have decided to replace the daily additions to their…
