If you're a cis person and you want to support the trans person in your life, just use their name and the correct pronouns and gender. Like, do it a lot. Especially when you're both around other people. Set the example. Correct people when they misgender and Deadname.

Seriously. It means a lot. More than you can know.

I have one coworker who always starts DMs in our work messenger with m'lady or similar. It's kinda cringe but it's so sweet. I LOVE it!

The airport parking shuttle driver somehow ma'am'd me like a dozen times between the airport and our car. Made my day. (Of course, that would NOT have made my day if it was "sir" or if I was transmasc.)

One of my favorite text messages I've ever received was my brother telling me how happy it made him to tell some guy in an airport bar that his sister has a PhD in math. Not that he likes my PhD but that he enjoyed calling me his sister.

Seriously. It means a lot.

People properly gendering you can make a trans person's day. It can also make the difference between a really awkward social situation and one that's survivable. It can make a crappy day better.

Project 2025 is a "get out if you can" kind of moment. If you're a queer person in the US and you have the means, you should leave the country. It can happen here, it *is* happening here in fits and starts in various states, and it will only get more difficult to escape if any of this happens on a federal level which there are reasonable odds of.

In every genocide that has happened, the majority of victims were arrested in peaceful, orderly manners, even long after the genocide began. They were arrested in their homes more often than in hiding, arrested while trying to live their lives as normally as possible more often than they were caught being involved in underground resistance. Part of what makes fascist genocides so horribly successful is that people can scarcely comprehend the danger, it's nearly impossible to actually hold in your mind that things will get that bad, not in the abstract but in a direct, personal, immediate sense. People do not believe in gas chambers even when they can smell the crematoria, because the human mind buckles under the weight of that horror.

It *can* happen here. It has begun happening here. Powerful electoral political institutions that draft successful legislation have published public plans for it to happen here, in an orderly, legal, formal, dreadfully complete manner.

It can happen here. You, the person reading this, need to repeat that until you believe it. It needs to exist in your mind with the same sharp danger as walking into your living room and finding your curtains on fire, it needs to be real like a gun being pointed at you while your wallet is demanded. It can happen here.