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An Inactive Twitter and Aimless Ramblings (AKA my Me Me Me Diary Entry) [1]

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Date: 2023-08-20

About… A few minutes ago I was browsing the Internet, as you do, when a thought struck me. A thought to look for good trans stories. Anything to lift my spirits, maybe even post on the ‘ol Daily Kos. So I looked into it, as you do, when right away I came across a Twitter account called Good Trans News. “Wow! right then and there. Right away.” Was about what I thought to myself so I went to the page and… Nothing had been posted this year.



The last post was from September 22, 2022 (I kid you not). And it wasn’t even for America. I know, I know, a real “Me Me Me” sentiment. Where’s my slice of the equality pie? Honestly that’s basically what this diary is probably going to amount to to an extent. I’m sure as has been evident, I come from the rootin’ tootin’ supposed god fearing state of Texas, where the baddies just can’t stop winning.



Just about… 5 days ago. Texas decided it hadn’t had enough of being Absolute Bastards so they went after Planned Parenthood. At least that’s when the story was posted. Planned Parenthood is known for providing reproductive healthcare, including abortions, but it also provides transitioning hormones under informed consent. How many transgender people utilize this service in Texas, I don’t know. I wish I weren’t afraid to utilize the service myself due to backwards, hateful hicks that would blow my brains out.



Though the question, depending on the lawsuit of Planned Parenthood Vs. Texas, is if Planned Parenthood will stick around, if it’ll be an option at all. The “default” path to transitioning is an arduous process often involving therapy that can be laced with gatekeepers who probably want nothing more than to chuck transpeople out of the office then and there and bar them from hormones forever. This is a cartoonishly evil exaggeration but golly gee does it feel like that.



If Planned Parenthood leaves, no informed consent. That’s why I wish it was a viable reality where every single Republican prick keeping me from being myself would get voted out come 2024, no mercy. The Democrat party here exists but it’s not some unmoving monolith that votes as one like the MAGAs and just about every Republican. No matter how hard we try or vote, it never feels like enough. Gotta keep our guns and those (F-slurs) and (T-slurs) in their place I guess.



The goliaths up in their offices just refuse to fall. Hell, I wish it was as easy as the tale of David Vs. Goliath. One ballot, all (D) votes, all districts, all positions. Bam, the Republicans are out. I wish it was that easy. That’s where a lot of my rage, a lot of my hate and bile resides.



But a lot of my envy resides in those trans people with better circumstances. Where, wow, people can just get hormones as if with the wave of a magic wand. Especially in countries besides “”the greatest country in the world, the freest country in the word””. To call myself unpatriotic when I see what others can have and I and many others can’t is a dramatic, dramatic understatement.



That Twitter I mentioned at the start is inactive, though I do know of good news for the trans community in other states. Trans Sanctuary states, wow. To me it feels like nothing more than a fantasy though. My own envy is the reason I can’t look at photos of transition timelines or progress updates with fondness. It’s a purely selfish, envious emotion bordering on hate because of what I can’t have. I know such emotions are irrational, unhealthy, like a kid whining in a store when they see a toy someone else is playing with that they can’t have. That’s why the “Me Me Me” in the title refers to me and myself alone. I don’t brand anyone else with that sort of thing.



But them’s the breaks. I don’t consider myself a picture perfect member of the trans community anyway so my emotions are my own. Like I said before, that’s where a portion of my anger comes from. A “”””free”””” country that just won’t get with the fucking program with helping its populace no matter how hard we campaign, no matter how hard we vote. It feels like we could vote with white, bleeding knuckles as our pen cuts into the ballot and it still wouldn’t be enough. All it takes on the other side is hateful pricks voting casually, humming a quaint little tune as they deny us our rights.



Anyway I guess that’s all. I set the bar in the dirt with the title alone. This is not a well researched diary, not a reference link in sight. Just a selfish, isolated emotion in the moment that made me have to get it off my chest for… whatever reason.

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