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They just—took away an entire population’s valid IDs. With a stroke of a pen. No grace period. No chance for anyone to get their IDs “fixed” in time, not that they should have had to in the first place. They even made it illegal for people to drive themselves to the DMV to get a new ID. That’s insane y’all. That is dystopian level madness. It is petty and cruel and literally dehumanizing.

They have also invalidated their birth certificates, thus jeopardizing their ability to prove citizenship and vote. It’s voter suppression on top of everything else.

They wanted to make an entire population into criminals with a stroke of a pen and that’s what they did.

And the rest of the country just… hasn’t noticed. No one cares. There’s no headlines. Nothing on the news. Because it’s Kansas. Because it’s trans people.

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

"But it was in Australia. You live in the USA. You didn't know any of them."

Doesn't matter.

"They were Chabad. You're reform. Aren't you on the opposite side of the spectrum?"

Nope. Doesn't matter.

"You are a convert. No one in your family was ever Jewish. You barely just got a handle on the holidays."

Still doesn't matter.

We are so few and community is such a big part of what being Jewish is.

If you wound one of us, you wound all of us. Those might as well be my brothers and sisters taking those bullets when they were just trying to bring light into an already pained tribe.

When one synagogue hurts, we all stand up and cry with them. We learned long ago what happens when we break apart into 'us vs. them'.

Some people will say "How can you publicly light candles after this? How insensitive to celebrate in this tragedy."

They do not know what it is to be Jewish. We light the candles out of defiance. We light the candles because hundreds and hundreds of years ago someone stood up and said "I'm tired of this bullshit" and took back the right to exist.

This isn't inherently because it's disrespectul to my job, though it is and us caregivers do SO much more than that; we're taking care of people. That's 10% or less of the job.

It's the genuine DISRESPECT of my clients that bother me.

Do NOT speak about my client like they're a dog. "Do you wipe ass for a living?" You could not have phrased that in a more insensitive, ableist, and dehumanizing way.

Incontenience care is NORMAL.

It is NOT gross, weird, immature, or anything else besides normal.

My clients have felt ashamed for normal things like needing their briefs changed or having to do toiletry and everytime I reassure them they're completely fine and not doing anything wrong. It breaks my heart to see them so embarassed over a normal bodily function, esepcially when they still feel so even though I signed up to do this.

Maybe the elderly or disabled wouldn't be so ashamed of basic things that ARE normal if people didn't make it sound like it was the most absurd, repulsive, and gross thing ever.

Please be mature. If you are an adult and cannot comprehend someone needing toilet assistance without making it weird or sound gross, then you really really need to grow up.

I don't really like making aggressive sounding posts or scolding posts, because every single person is learning and we all make mistakes, but gosh guys, this really bothers me.