I’m an Exhausted Transgender Woman, and You Can Guess Why

Being transgender and being American have become incongruent.

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I am exhausted.

Body, heart and soul.

For being transgender.

For being a member of the LGBTQ community.

For being an American during the shame of the current presidency.

For being a human being at a time of increasing intolerance.

The current environment feels like an assault on everything I believe and everything I am. I am taking it all very personally as much as I try not to. I feel offended every day.

I know that most of us feel the same way.

Being transgender and being American have become incongruent. Like every transgender person, I feel like I am a migrant on the wrong side of the US border, and they are arming the guards on the border wall.

Regardless of my citizenship, I continue to see attacks on my rights and my right to exist. Scientific facts are being discarded for religious doctrine. Once the facts are thrown out, proof that I am a woman dissolves with it.

I hate having to prove that I am a woman. I am.