Mr. President, I did not ask for my life to become a policy. You decided it would be. You have used the power of the office I am a citizen under to sign orders that declare, by decree, that there are only two sexes; to push people like me out of the military we volunteered […]
Governor DeSantis, You built a national profile on a simple trick: find a small group that unsettles people, and govern against it. You backed the laws restricting care for trans kids and narrowed what a teacher is permitted to say about people like me, and you called it freedom. It is a strange freedom that […]
Governor Abbott, You directed the state of Texas to treat loving parents as suspects of child abuse for getting their trans kids the care their own doctors recommended. Investigators were sent toward family homes. The courts pushed back and the policy wobbled, but the message arrived exactly as designed: that in your Texas, a trans […]
Representative Greene, You have said a great many things about people like me, loudly and on camera, and they share one feature: each requires an audience. The rhetoric is not built to solve anything. It is built for the clip, the fundraising email, and the next cycle of outrage you can convert into attention. I […]
Representative Mace, You made a public campaign out of policing which restroom a colleague was allowed to use, as though the most urgent matter before the country was where one person washes their hands. You called it protecting women. So I will ask you plainly, as one woman to another: who did you imagine you […]
Representative, You have never met me, and you have written several bills about my body. I have read them. They are heavy with words like “protect” and “common sense” and empty of any sign that you have spoken with a single person they would actually affect. Legislating a life you have never encountered is not […]
Every June the logos turn rainbow and the word Pride gets used like it has always meant a parade with corporate floats. It is worth remembering that it started as a riot. Stonewall was not a celebration; it was people who were tired of being raided and beaten fighting back against the police, led by […]