@topaz @Melissabeartrix My partner and I were talking before sleep one night recently. She did her doctorate in language revival and nationalism, so what she said had a certain expertise. "The threat of trans genocide should evoke terror. But we can only call it that if we have first admitted there is a 'people'. That's a progress we didn't have before."
It's not comforting, but it is true. We are at least now a people.