Thank you for writing this, it's quite poignant and succinct.

Sometimes I become punch drunk by just how common these toxic behaviors are. Although being trans and being gay are two different things, the first thing that pops to mind when I say that is my friend Ned; when gay marriage was legalized at the federal level, his response was "Finally they can stop bitching."

We grew up in a town were if you were gay, being the target of a hatecrime was a daily fear. Hell, we both knew someone who was viciously beaten for that reason the same damn year.

I don't get it, I don't get how people can see stuff like this and not make the obvious deduction: society is dangerous if you're trans. Quite dangerous.

It's frustrating. Thank you very much for writing this.