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Dear trans youth:

I am sorry.

I am so sorry you are facing more and more hatred nationally, which I’m sure is emboldening the transphobes in your life to express more and more hatred personally. I’m so sorry your right to safely exist is seen as “controversial” in so many places. I’m so sorry laws are being passed that serve no other purpose than to harm you.

I’ve always been cis, so I can only imagine how it must feel to have your life mocked and dismissed and so often threatened, targeted as a talking-point by bigots who promote violence against you because it “polls well”. 

I’m horrified by the literal, this-is-not-a-joke, actual goddamn genocide already gaining steam in the Northern Hemisphere’s taint-stain I mean South, the US South. I hate that I am watching human rights get rolled back with every election cycle. I am more ashamed of my country every day.

As a Californian I feel like I can’t do much politically, except vote and sign petitions and write long emails to various representatives (find yours here), but I can at least tell you about some resources I know of:

The Office of Transgender Initiative is a San Francisco-based national resource with just, like, pretty much everything. And if they don’t have it, they’ll know where to get it.

This Texas-based nonprofit has counseling and crises guidance.

This Atlanta-based youth group has a crisis hotline, as well as a bunch of other hotlines.

This Maine-based advocacy group can hook you up with everything from literature to social events to legal advice.

This advocacy group has tons of information and counselors, with FAQs for many relevant topics including surgery prep.

This online support group discusses the ins and outs of medical transitioning.

This discord server has several LGBTQIA+ groups.

This risk assessment map can predict just how bad your state might get in the next two years.

This nonprofit can help you find safe housing, free food, legal council, and even a job.

This organization can help you if you’re about to be homeless.

This hotline can help you find a safe place to sleep tonight.

These folks, and these folks, and these folks, can give you free legal advice, including help with emancipating from your parents if you’re a minor.

These folks, and these folks, and these folks, can also give you free legal advice, including help with seeking asylum or refugee status.

This Lifeline is a wealth of suicide prevention resources.

And every word in this sentence links to an online support group.

I wish I could do more. I wish there were more resources out there for you. (And if you know of any more, please reblog with them!) I wish we lived in a better world.

I am so sorry you have to face all this, but please, please remember that you are not facing it alone. You have allies.

We see you.

We are fighting for you.

Please don’t give up hope.

Here’s some support on my part & a nod to part of my editor’s heritage. If anyone else would like to help, don’t hesitate to chip in some way.

A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.

Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesn’t mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways it’s getting worse. And even if you yourself aren’t being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.

Stay safe Darling ones, and help others remain safe too.

tumblr polls leave me chuckling whenever I scroll past them.

zillennials? please. user paradigms? sure, users ask for their somewhat comical following.

but the ides of march poll had me literally rofl 🤣.

did you catch that one? I'm sure I shared it .

I wonder if tumblr algorithm / groups could connect me with upcoming writing talent. I just know there are eclectic writers on here, and I might have couple lil nuggets on getting discovered available.

nugget kbizkarma

writing community contributor Lauren kay reminds writers everywhere to keep at it and continue with climbing . 🧸➡️🏯

her short but completely accurate piece ina nutshell -- > writers will have hard times without planning for it, but the grind 🚸📵 is just part of issues with unpredictable market or with public opinion.

below is a link to the page

https://www.writersdigest.com/getting-published/i-got-8-agent-offers-then-my-book-died-on-sub