A Letter to My Trans Brothers and Sisters

Offering words of love and encouragement.

How y’all doing? I know, right? Shit is rough outchere, and unfortunately, y’all got the playground bully’s full attention right now. This is just full-on Jim Crow 2.0 and err’body outchere catching some of that smoke.

One of the most profound analogies I came across regarding anti-racism work was this: Those of us who are fighting this fight, are born into a desert, as were our parents, grandparents, and those ancestors before, but we can all see the mountains that are our goal. Just like our ancestors, we will not reach that goal and most likely will die in this desert, but we will keep moving forward because every step we take gets our descendants (who will also be born into this desert) one step closer to that goal.

From MLK: If you can't fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, KEEP MOVING!

Keep Moving Forward is my own personal mantra and it has helped me in innumerable ways. I want as many transgender men and women to adopt this mantra as possible. Tell yourselves this every single day if you have to.

What y’all are going through right now is not new. In fact, it is very old. All the tactics being used against you today, the lies, the rhetoric, the terrorism, the laws, were all used against us: Blacks, Jews, Gays, Women…Y’all are just the latest group at which this is being aimed, and you were deliberately chosen because your numbers are small, you are…