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@dpflug

In 1999, my best friend was stabbed to death on her own doorstep a week before Christmas by a boyscout who had sold her popcorn in a fund raising drive, found out later she was trans, and decided to murder her about it. He pled not guilty due to "trans panic" and was acquitted.

I don't know you. But I know the horrors that are about to come. I lived through them. I survived them. I fought them. If you aren't willing to fight, if you don't have it in you, that's ok. You don't have to be on the front lines of every battle. Self care is important.

But get the fuck out of the way of people who are. Some of us know - by experience! - that the only way to deal with fascists is to give them no safe harbor.

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