Why do I have to be an American trans woman?

Okay, so let's say you're right. What are you going to do about it? What are any of us going to do besides try and save our own skins and those of our friends? If things are really as bad as you say, what's the use shouting about it and making people feel bad? Because, don't insult our intelligence, you can keep saying "why the fuck would they want lists if not to genocide us?" over and over and it's not really something that's possible to reasonably argue against.

Okay so let's pretend you're right, once again. It's not as if there are genuinely organized left wing forces that can push back against it, if it's as bad as you say. Maybe we should get armed? But then again if it's as bad as you say, small arms don't stand a chance against a state run genocide, conducted by a state apparatus that uses hordes of police with military equipment, and a legal infrastructure that was set up after 9/11 that can surveil literally anyone in the US that they want.

So, there is a history of genocide in the US, against the indigenous peoples. Do you think it'll be worse for us than the indigenous community which are stuck on reservations with barely any resources or services? Will we be treated worse than black people have been, enslaved for centuries, their neighborhoods essentially under military occupation by pigs? Even under those terrible circumstances, are we supposed to believe their lives are complete doom and despair? So will things be worse for us, then? Why, when race is such a primary axis of oppression in American history? Are there trans neighborhoods where we can be targeted and herded into a ghetto or reservation? Or are we a small population that are decentralized and spread all through out various socio economic classes? Do you think an organized genocide against us could happen without the entire LGBT community swept up along with it? At that point you're looking at some Handmaid's Tale situation where we turn into a totalitarian society and much more people would be swept up into it than just us.

I agree with you that things are bad and getting worse. But spare us the hysterics. There's no practical use for it except to validate your own anxiety, not that the anxiety isn't warranted. And if your worst case scenario happens, okay, I guess I was wrong, egg on my face. But who the hell would want to be alive in a country where we suddenly turn into literal Gilead or something? Just kill me off at that point. I have a spirituality, if that's my fate, so be it, I'm going to live my life in the meantime. And if you think there will be somewhere nicer to run, good luck, because it's simply not realistic to forecast a global political situation where the US turns into fucking Gilead, but the rest of the world just stays completely normal as they are now, so we can flee there as refugees or something. You think TERF island won't be fascist, or Marine Le Pen's France, or Meloni's Italy, won't be fascist too in that scenario? Are we supposed to believe Canada or Scandanavia will keep up their sorta fake "we're so nice and progressive" mask? America is still the global hegemon at the center of all international financial institutions and organizations. A genocide conducted by the American state would signal such a drastic shift in world affairs, it would be hellish everywhere in that case.

Anyway I could go on and on. There's so many good arguments against your claims. If you're right, we're so far gone there's nothing you can do about it that would stop it, so just do your best in the mean time. And if you're wrong, maybe you'll learn a lesson, or maybe you won't.

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