Battle Fatigue and the Transgender Community

For years it has been a relentless barrage of unprovoked, baseless attacks and many transgender women are tired.

It comes in endless waves, both in America and the United Kingdom.

Every day, it’s the media propelling their anti-trans agendas, rife with misinformation into the mainstream. Sometimes they muse over whether we should be sterilized before being recognized, or if we should be allowed to participate in sports. Determined to make us a perpetual topic of criticism, they draw a malignant narrative for their readers, most who remain blissfully ignorant to the facts, into alignment with their traditionally caustic messaging.

Other days, it’s our government. Trump has waged a war on Transgender people across the country, radicalizing his base to justify the redaction of protections, the removal of access to healthcare and deliberately making us vulnerable to harassment, discrimination and compromising our public safety.

Adding to the merciless pile-on are the Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) who take to social media with an uncaged hostility wherein they relentlessly bully anyone who visibly identifies as a transgender woman. They refer to our anatomy with grotesque, demeaning vernacular. They hijack Pride parades to make certain we know we are not wanted. They hold cross…