@britt trans 19 year old in the middle of Ohio here. The hostile attitudes towards queer people and our bodies not only made me feel incredibly isolated as a younger teen, but directly contributed to me being sexually assaulted in a locker room when I was 15 and suspected of being queer.

I had to move to online schooling when I came out as trans, isolating me even more. All I could really do was wait for adulthood.

I feel for any queer person who has to grow up in this place <3

@fraying I’m currently 19 and in Ohio. Gender affirming care as a minor saved my life and I have bottom surgery coming up in a few months.

What happens when the unthinkable happens and my access to hormones is restricted? There’s no world where I can go back to before. I can’t live that way again. I won’t do it.

Please, keep your trans friends and family close, let them know you’ll fight for them and believe their fears. Nobody deserves to have their lives ripped away by hate.

@oldladyplays thank you so much. I’m a trans young adult in a very conservative part of the US. I’m absolutely terrified for my future here. I want so desperately to leave once I’ve had my bottom surgery (august 1st!!) and it’s really terrifying. I’d be uprooting my entire life but if my state finds a way to prevent me from getting hrt or worse, I know where I’ll look to first.

Thank you. Seeing this gives me hope. Hope that I may actually have a future somewhere.