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It is a scary time to be someone the United States government deems to be “undesirable”.
These days, it feels like I’m living in a dystopian movie or novel —stories I loved growing up but never desired to live out.
I am NeuroDivergent.
I am Autistic.
I am NeuroDivergent in multiple ways that I don’t mention online.
I am Queer.
I am Trans (Nonbinary and GenderFluid).
I am Pansexual.
I am Polyamorous.
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All of these parts of my identity are problems in the eyes of our government.
There has been talk about Autism registries, putting NeuroDivergent People in wellness camps, and a push to label those opposed to the atrocities of the current regime with a mental disorder, called Trump Derangement Syndrome (or TDS for short).
Our government, and those in power, have started a push to re-label Queer people as mentally ill, and social media outlets have begun to enforce this push.
Some of our leaders have even called for the mass institutionalization of Transgender People, calling Trans People “a cancer that’s spreading across this country“.
Most recently, our government has tried to label Trans People and others who refuse to go along with the current regime’s goals as “violent extremists“, under the category “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism“ (TIVE) as a way to categorize trans people as “domestic terrorists” or “nihilistic violent extremists.”
In Texas, Attorney General Paxton put out a memo that he plans to launch undercover operations to infiltrate and uproot “leftist terror cells” in Texas, stating that “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” once again comparing Transgender People to a cancer that needs to be eradicate from society.
As a Transgender Texan, this type of rhetoric makes my blood run cold.
Currently, David and I are not in Texas, but we’re supposed to go back, and I worry about whether or not it will be safe for us to return home.
It’s a scary time to be NeuroDivergent; it is a dangerous time to be Queer.
These differences are mostly invisible, and if needed, some of us can hide our identities... but it’s too late for me to do so because the internet is forever. I’ve already shared these parts of myself with the world (back when it was safer for me to do so).
I can’t take it back. So I keep sharing, keep posting, keep doing what I can to expose the lies that the people in power are trying to sell us.