Trans people go through long processes and professional oversight to arrive at medical intervention in professional settings. Bottom surgery is not taken lightly in the same way that later in life circumcision should be and should be consented to. Ear piercings are largely inconsequential although I strongly disagree with piercing unwilling children.
I hate to dox myself but I'm from Houston, we regularly get bad flooding here and there's a lot of people here including local businesses, police, and private citizens that have trucks for fording floods.
As both a trans woman and a Hispanic person I can tell you, I'm scared too. This IS the fault of trump voters but abstaining or third party voting made it worse. Is it the main cause? The main problem? No, but swallowing a bitter pill would have maybe saved us some of the pain and fear. I live in texas and I refuse to run, I'll stay here and fight bitterly and hold my nose while making incremental change.
I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there's a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.
This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I'm washing my car, even when I'm checking my mail.
I shouldn't be living like this, I don't deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.
You'd be surprised how many of us are normal good people. Disenfranchisement, political fuckery, and disinformation from the powers that be have us fucked up.
Fuck you dude, do not subject all to suffer for these sins. I'm already on the verge of black market meds and fuck you for tying us all together in the same noose.
I'm Hispanic in texas, my family has been american since texas became US territory and most of us barely speak any spanish if at all. I carry my ID to check my mail now, walk to the corner store on my lunch break, everywhere. I don't expect these pricks to wait for me to get my ID and that's what they want. Control and fear and I have to capitulate because the alternative bad at best, life destroying or worse.
Beer!