This Independence day, are you celebrating the idealized America you remember from better days, or America as it exists today?
By Jane Migliara Brigham
If the architects of our suffering get their way, the phrase ‘Trans American’ will evoke the same historical horrors as the phrase ‘German Jew’. For as much as we like to say that “trans people have always existed”, we don’t like admitting that we, the individual trans people, will not always exist. We are mortal beings with finite lifespans that can be cut short.
Whatever you do, don’t be like Victor Klemperer. Do not attach yourself to a nation that hates you. Do not pretend that the nation that taught itself that people like you need to be removed from society will treat you as an equal when their leader dies.
