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THREE THINGS CIS PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE:

1. We aren't rare. There are twice as many of us as there are police officers in America.

2. We aren't new. There are historical examples of us in every society, in every nation, on every continent on earth, since the beginning of recorded history.

3. We aren't going away. In 1933, one of the first things the Nazi party did after seizing power, was burn down the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the largest repository in the world of trans histories and trans academic research. So if you've ever thought trans people are rare or new, blame a Nazi.