Wednesday, November 27, 2024

What's wrong with being transgender

How dare you be transgender--how dare you fail to validate my cisgender way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be homosexual--how dare you fail to validate my heterosexual way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be fluid or queer--how dare you fail to validate my tightly constricted, strictly defined way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be a woman--how dare you fail to validate my male way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be a person of color--how dare you fail to validate my white way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be vegan--how dare you fail to validate my meat-eating way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be educated--how dare you fail to validate my ignorant way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

How dare you be rational--how dare you fail to validate my superstitious way of life! I am too fearful and ashamed to exist in this world unless every other person I meet validates my exact way of life!

I refuse to look inward for my own happiness because I am deathly afraid that, if I look inward, there will be nothing there--just an inky black void. I am deathly afraid that, if I look inward, I will confirm the terrifying, ugly fact that there is no me. So, instead of pulling myself up by my own bootstraps, facing my fears, and taking responsibility for who I am and how I feel, I've decided to blame you for all my problems because that's easier, and it makes me feel better.

I hate you because I know that there are other--perhaps better!--ways of existing in this world, and your existence threatens my existence because you don't mirror my exact way of life back to me.

And that's why I want you dead.

(This is what maga would say if they were self aware.)