Listening to the Strangers podcast with the author of "A letter to the trans teens thinking of giving up", and it's a really needed wakeup call imo to us trans adults who tend to catastrophize the state of things.
"ople, you know, who have been living as a trans person in the world for like, let's say 10 years or less, and often like five years or less, were responding to the Scarmetti decision with panic. And we're saying things like, you know, this is. This is going to kill trans kids. This is a death sentence for trans kids. Not being able to access the gender affirming care that they have been able to access will be deadly for trans kids....
" ... I think that that being the only public and visible response, particularly from trans adults, I think that's also dangerous because they can hear you. Like, the young people are looking to us for information and for guidance and for community and to be there with them. And the overwhelming response from the sort of adult trans community was like, welp, that's it for you, kid. Bummer. And, like, tearing their hair and, like, grieving and like, oh, these kids, like, they're dead. That's it. They're dead. And I was like, they're not. They're not fucking dead yet. Like, be here with them, you know, like, we don't. We don't need to propagate this narrative that there is no future for trans kids without a Skrmetti win. Like, do you really think that the trans community, the existence of transness, the ways that we care for each other, the ways that we, like, bear each other up and make space for each other and get each other what we need in ways that have already been invented and have been being used for decades and decades and in ways that haven't been invented yet? "
https://strangers-in-a-tangled-wildern.pinecast.co/episode/d53d7fc6/a-letter-to-the-trans-teens-thinking-about-giving-up-by-andy