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Resist. Rise. Reclaim. [1]

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Date: 2025-02-21

Here’s the truth: the Trump administration is trying to erase trans people—not with gas chambers or the obvious violence of Nazi Germany, but through quiet, calculated attacks on our right to exist. It’s a modern form of oppression, disguised as “protecting children” or “preserving fairness.” It’s just like how the Southern Strategy once hid racism behind phrases like “states’ rights” and “law and order.”

They know they can’t repeat history the same way. The world wouldn’t stand for mass killings like Hitler’s regime. But oppression changes shape. Instead of death camps, they use paperwork and policies. They block access to life-saving healthcare, ban the medications we need to manage our hormones, and cut off mental health resources that help us survive in a world already stacked against us. They go after our joy—our right to play sports, to feel safe at school, at work, and in public. Every law, every ban, every smear campaign is designed to push us out of society, to make us invisible and vulnerable.

This isn’t genocide by gas chamber; it’s genocide by neglect. When you take away someone’s basic needs, suffering and death become inevitable. It’s the same hateful strategy, just dressed up in more “respectable” language. The goal is the same: to erase an entire community while pretending it’s about morality.

But we won’t be erased. We won’t quietly watch them strip away our rights. We’ll fight back—fearlessly, unapologetically, and together. Because this fight isn’t just about trans people. The same systems attacking us are also hurting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, immigrants, women, and the poor. It’s all connected, and our survival depends on standing together, building power across every line they try to divide us by.

We’ll meet their cruelty with community, their hate with solidarity. Every time they try to isolate us, we’ll strengthen our connections. Every right they take, we’ll build support systems. Every lie they spread, we’ll answer with truth—loud, proud, and unshaken. Our communities are worth fighting for, and we will fight with everything we’ve got. Because when we stand together, we are stronger than their oppression. And we will not lose. Not now. Not ever.

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