When I went to my local mutual aid summit on Halloween, it was a TRANS mutual aid summit of trans people, young and old, more transfems than anyone, performing their art and selling their life's works as vendors. It was fucking beautiful. It made me fucking cry. It was white. But it was the most at home, most safe and cherished I have ever been in my entire fucking life.
In a single weekend, tumblr raised 3000 odd dollars for that organization.
If I went this year and looked these people dead in the face and said trans womanhood is writing grooming fan fiction online explicitly for adults and teenagers to interact with me, the mentorship programs would have called the police and the anarchists would have fucking stabbed me.
This is because these sentiments are unwelcome in real community organizations that shelter and cherish queer youth. I am just simply so sorry a young woman would be convinced she must be subject to harm to be a woman.
As if this isn't what everyone else has been telling ALL women for generations.
It's heartbreaking and for young women caught in this, there is still time.
Why would I empathize with the 30 year olds?
This problem has been born of informed, cruel, sick, adult choices that have literally nothing to do with the gender of an assailant.