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   Zinnia Jones 🐍 (zinnia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 12:14:46 JST Zinnia Jones 🐍

   Sorry but it's just been really hard seeing the entire world over the past two years decide they do not like trans people anymore, and I've experienced people deciding they don't like me at the smaller scale of family or friend groups but obviously this is on a whole new level

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     Zinnia Jones 🐍 (zinnia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 12:14:43 JST Zinnia Jones 🐍

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     I've watched this go from "fairness in sports" to "3rd graders can't know what trans is" to "trans teachers either get misgendered or fired" to "adults can't get their HRT prescriptions from nurse practitioners anymore" to a proposed *public sector DADT*: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/645632-dont-say-gay-for-nonprofits-ryan-chamberlin-files-bill-that-would-restrict-lgbtq-nonprofits-receiving-state-funding/.

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     Zinnia Jones 🐍 (zinnia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 12:14:45 JST Zinnia Jones 🐍

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     I'm not positioned to offer advice on what anyone should do anymore, because I don't even know how to instruct myself to cope with it

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     Zinnia Jones 🐍 (zinnia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 12:14:45 JST Zinnia Jones 🐍

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     I don't know if there's any kind of therapy intended to help people cope with this particular form of near-global betrayal, to teach us how to deal with knowing that everywhere is like this now and it was just a capricious and cynical choice everyone else made to ruin our lives

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     Zinnia Jones 🐍 (zinnia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 12:14:45 JST Zinnia Jones 🐍

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     It doesn't matter what the facts are when everyone decides they want to look for reasons to hate us. That's a world that leaves no clear role or purpose for my work or for any of the goals I've tried to achieve for our community

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.