I'm Still Alex - 011 - a resource
Aug 02, 2025
it’s not even a “put your ear to the ground to hear what’s coming” type of situation, there have been executive orders that specifically target transgender people. The writing isn’t on the wall, it’s on government documents.
The phone call described in this strip happened a few months ago, before I came out publicly. As you can imagine, it only made me more fearful of coming out. If this person who I love and trust so much that they were one of the first folks I came out to over five years ago didn’t understand why what’s happening is so terrifying, why this bigotry needs to be completely shut down immediately, how could the bigots themselves understand?
Part of my position was that there were television ads being run showing transgender folks as these disgusting people, something less than human that are deserving of ridicule and are a drain on the country’s resources and a danger to children.
According to them, my terror of seeing me be advertised as that way was just me being alarmist, that the people that I’m afraid of aren’t going to do anything and that there shouldn’t be any fear of danger. We’re two weeks in, and already there’s legal action being taken to strip me and people like me of not just their rights, but their humanity.
It’s hard. On one hand, I do understand their position that I should try to be a source of education, to try to bridge the gap to these people. I agree not in the sense that it should be my responsibility, but in that it feels like the only practical thing I can do. On the other hand, what can I possibly do in the face of so much hatred?
I have family members who’ve voted for this. People who might say they have love in their hearts but voted to label certain people as sub-human.
I’m not just disappointed, I’m genuinely frightened. I don’t want to sound like the world is crashing down around us, but in a way it really is.
Kenna
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I hope you are taking care of yourself! I work in a very red place and I’ve learned to pick my battles, but it does wear you down. Sometimes it can be dangerous too, and you do so much more (practically) by being a symbol of hope like you mentioned in the previous comic for the people who need it than by trying to convince the bigots to believe otherwise - sometimes with bigots, more than education, just exposure and normalization to your existence goes a lot farther, in my experience. I wish you the best!
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