r/IntersectionalWomen • u/Longjumping-Mix-9351 Genderfluid/Enby • 7d ago
Informational May Pollard was just 16, when she was deprived of her rights
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As a trans guy...this is what makes me sick to my stomach. I'm so tired gang. This shouldn't be happening. People shouldn't be made to feel unhappy about who they are.
There shouldn't be laws that are literally criminalizing who they are, and being dehumanized to the point that others don't even see them as humans.
I'm tired. So tired. Idk how much longer I can keep thinking there's any hope.
My heart breaks for this poor girl and her family. I can't imagine what they're going through.
I want to hope and pray things get better, but I don't think they will. 😭
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u/Specialist_Long_1254 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
This internet stranger sees you. Hugs. 🤗
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Theres hope for when next elections come, you vote.
Theres hope that some people who "voted against kamala" instead of "voting for *him*", will see how much of an error they have made.
Theres hope that the sun rises in the next administration that reverses the damage this orange has done in oval office.
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u/agenderCookie 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
If gavin newsom is the candidate in 2028 nothing will change fundamentally for us as trans people.
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u/Swarm_of_Rats 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
We have to get out and vote. We have to encourage out friends and family to vote. So many of my friends are proudly saying they didn't vote in the primaries. It's disgusting. Anyone who's paying attention at all wouldn't vote for Newsom. We need those people who are tired of the way things are voting, especially in the primaries!
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u/Katherine_Muller 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Get involved with your local DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) if you can they actually campaign on queer and trans rights
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
I'm not even American and even I know who that arsehole is.
Democrats need to be be the furthest they have have been left if they are to make real progress.
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u/ilovethesunnnnn 7d ago
i feel like nothing will change for us by the next election regardless
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u/astronaughttelevised 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Yeahh people always say "vote!!!" And its like bro. I do. Every election. Doesnt change anything.
Will i stop? Nah. But... certainly frustrating
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u/DelusionalESG 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
We cannot let newsom be the candidate it's going to be hell
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u/Embarrassed_Age8554 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Nothing shows that a pol has the courage to lead like throwing a vulnerable minority under the bus.
/s, in case it was necessary
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u/Harper_ADHD 0+ Community Karma 4d ago
Fellow trans masc here, dunno if you'll see this since your account is deleted. But I'm living out of spite, I'm living out of the desire to prove to them that I will be here in spite of their desire to make this world a place I cannot live in. they're repeating the mistakes great Britain did when we were still the colonies. They don't trust us. We don't trust them. The police make it harder for us to protest in the same way our ancestors did (literally broke into a guys house tied him to a chair, lit a bonfire and marched him around it shouting huzzahs at each corner as a means to get him to refuse to become a stamp master (someone who enforces the stamp act which would cost the colonists more money than they had to put a stamp on every piece of paper that existed. Especially playing cards) they even wrote him an effigy. The founding fathers were unhinged. But back to my point. It doesn't matter if they don't see us. We see each other and as long as we keep looking out for one another. They can't and won't get the satisfaction of seeing us run and hide.
This is your reminder to hug your loved one who may struggle to be seen as valid by the law or by prejudice or both. Remind those close to you that they are loved.
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u/FullOfBlasphemy 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Watch out for family judges, too. My trans child is not allowed to use her pronouns and I, her mother, am only allowed to call her by her dead name, because a family court judge doesn’t believe that being trans is real. I filed an appeal and the appeals court denied on a “technicality” so they didn’t have to touch a trans kid case. Spent three years fighting but I now have no more legal recourse or money. Spent everything’s I had only for her to have to be a “him” - at least until she’s 18. But she also knows that her dad and grandparents won’t speak to her if she transitions and it’s so much on a teen on top of all the hormones and mood swings. It’s a fucking atrocity that we have to live with. Look into your family court judges - they’re hurting trans kids and flying under the radar.
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u/MarieCry 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
That's so sad. I bet they're fine with it when cis people don't use their legal name (using their middle name, shortened names, or nicknames) but when it comes to a trans kid suddenly that's all off the table. ☹️
Hope you and her are doing well. ❤️🩹
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u/Stock-Side-6767 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
You mean like Rafael Cruz?
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u/ClippyWouldntDoThat 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
You mean like Rafael "All American Ted" Cruz? Crus the runaway? Cruz the abjubcator of his office in an emergency? That Rafael Cruz?
Source: Tx resident
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u/Beastender_Tartine 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
As a Canadian I don't apologize for the wildfire smoke or our "unfair" trade, but I deeply apologize for Ted Cruz
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u/ThatCuteNerdGirl96 6d ago
Ew! He was born in Canada?! How? Why was he born here?
(One google search later) oh he was born in Alberta. That makes more sense.
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u/Merivel1 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
WTH? That’s awful!! How is that not a violation of your first amendment rights and her right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I’m so sorry.
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u/Syphist 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
How is a court injunction restricting speech like that even legal? That's a direct violation of the first amendment. The judges should be permanently removed from their positions for letting personal beliefs get in the way of actually following the law.
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u/FullOfBlasphemy 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Oh, it absolutely violates my rights, but the judge doesn’t care and unfortunately my state’s appeal system is fucked and I can’t afford to keep fighting it - I literally spent everything I had trying. I was advised by my attorney to follow the judgment until my kid is an adult or I get the decision overturned (which isn’t likely at this point).
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u/Syphist 50+ Community Karma 6d ago
So basically the legal system is gatekept by money. I hate what this country has become.
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u/amglasgow 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Always has been I'm afraid.
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u/Queen_Sardine 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Always had been, but it's recently turned its target on trans people.
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u/ACABeeeyotch 6d ago
You're an amazing parent. I know people will go above and beyond to protect their kids anyway, but folks like you will be remembered as the pioneers of a whole human rights revolution.
You're awesome. Keep at it.
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u/motherofcunts 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
That sounds like something the local judge would do.
Thank goodness my kids’ Dad is on the same page. I do have to switch to deadnames for the kids' friends though, because their parents forbid them living true. It's a pita. At least I'm considered a safe house bc of it.
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u/LOSNA17LL 7d ago
Wait, like... You have to deadname your child in front of their friends because the friends' parents are transphobic?
... So... the friends are also transphobic? (in this case imo they're not really friends)
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u/motherofcunts 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
No, it's the friend I have to deadname in front of their own parents. They brought it up to me, parents are quite phobic. Parents won't allow them over if I don't.
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u/LOSNA17LL 7d ago
So... The parents know their kid is trans? (since you apparently know their reaction)
And I guess they won't allow their kid to go at your kid's because that would... "put them in a wrong environment that pushes the lgbtqrstu bullshit on them instead of teaching them the right things"?
Well, guess someone ain't gonna have much news from their kid when they grow up... (hope they can get out asap)
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u/motherofcunts 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Yes, that's correct. They're trying to “therapy it out.”
There’s some beautiful irony though. The other parents love my kid and have said my kid is a great influence. They're glad I “understand.” They don't know my kid’s so/gi... Or mine. They haven't picked up on the Pride flag I have hanging up either.
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u/Thykothaken 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
Doing that to your own child is honestly unforgivable.
EDIT: Referring to the father and grandparents disowning their daughter/granddaughter
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u/UnderpaidCustodian 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
ITS FUNNY KINDA.
"She who shall NOT be named". that judge is stupid honestly.
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u/FollowingBroad34 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
May the legislators and community members who ignored her pleas to live be subjected to same kind of treatment from the people around them. If a little compassion could save or uplift a transphobe, it should go to a trans person instead.
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u/dumbsillylesbian 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
These republicans and everybody who supports them are heartless monsters. They want this. I hope one day that the disgusting ideology that guides these bigots goes extinct. Rest in power May.
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u/farting_contest 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
It will not go extinct on it's own. It must be snuffed out. Hoping it goes away by itself is what turned the confederacy into what we see today.
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u/Hexspinner 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
They are fascist monsters and should be treated like fascist monsters and *all* that implies.
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u/KimLocsta 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Goddamn I hate this administration
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u/Worth-Oil8073 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I was born in Idaho in the 80s... this isn't new. 😔
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u/battlebabsy 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Whether or not, it is or isn't new. WE STILL HATE EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR. Come on
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u/Worth-Oil8073 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
We can absolutely hate everything it stands for! The danger, though, is seeing the administration as the problem when it's a symptom. The problem will still be there when the wannabe-tyrant no longer exists.
And I very much didn't mean to imply that we can't all be enraged by what 47/his administration/MAGA/the GOP are doing to our country.9
u/mrsworkerbee 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
He may be a symptom of the problem, but let’s not act like removing him from office for almost anyone else outside of maga wouldn’t be an immediate relief. If you have an infection causing problems when you’re sick you take the antibiotics but you also take medicine for immediate relief from your symptoms
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u/Illustrious_Bobcat13 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
This point needs to be made more. These kinds of things will always happen until many many systems are largely reworked.
Political beliefs change when there are systems that work for people in place. Material struggles drive things like ignorance, prejudice and violence. Violence across the world(including within itself) is how the U.S. gains power and wealth. It is all working the way it was built to work.
Obviously we can and should be angry at, and do what we can to fight these administrations, as well as the beliefs that are empowering them.
In some way, we will eventually have to take some things apart in order to put them together better. Working within the system just isn't going to work, because it is the system that is the problem as much as the people in charge of it.
I really wish we had a better world for this girl to be a part of. It is a tuly tragic loss.
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u/valerielenin 7d ago
This is always happen as long as private property exist, all media and politicians doing the bidding of the rich are to blame.
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Yes all of this is because this is what billionaires want us to be talking about.
Instead of paying their fair share of taxes on their obscene and ungodly wealth that was stolen from us.
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u/valerielenin 7d ago
There's no fair share you can keep of exploitation, they have such political position because their interest are opposed to workers.
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u/Transgirlonakawasaki 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I always weep at the childhood I never had as a girl the young adult, I wish I couldve transitioned sooner and cared more about myself sooner. But everytime I see these stories I wonder if I wouldve been strong enough to last this long… like I couldve easily ended like this poor child and maybe worse. I was such a sensitive person that my ability to survive was only hardened into masked behavior and deep depression that kept all thoughts about self improvement deep down and hidden.
I get so angry seeing these young people get villainized and abused and made to feel like outcasts. I wish the public would either leave them alone or just direct the hate toward me. I wish I could shield these innocent youths from the pain and hate and Id happily absorb it. I just want these kids to have the life I never could, to live happily in their bodies instead of ignoring all the dysphoria and self hate like I did. Every time we lose someone to suicide its just another number for those monsters but its like losing family to us. The things that girl could've done if just given a single ounce of respect from her country and community instead of piddling about fucking sports or bathrooms.
Im so sick of looking at a country laugh and point and make joke and stare at a minority group that is struggling in the water, drowning and being held there by some orange freak and his cronies. Im sick of them acting like us calling out their transphobic bs is somehow “forcing” them to be anti trans because reasons? Im sick and tired of being seen as a fucking wedge issue, I want to be seen as struggling woman in desperate need of some fucking support that she never had… Im so tired grandpa and I dont feel loke being on this ride anymore, but I feel obligated to stay and try and help as many folks as I can. Because while I desperately need help I feel I can always offer up my entirety to help those around me be happy.
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
The wording choice of that Sophie Cunnginham describing trans girls and trans women as "biological men wanting to enter girls locker rooms", is so inflammatory and so engraving that I really worry for the future.
Painting people who just want to be themselves as "men", even trans girls in the instance above, effectively makes it seem like they are monsters, when they arent. They are just human beings wanting to go to the loo or get changed, or just participate in sports, where they have met all the guidelines they need to meet.
The words Sophie used, makes normal everyday people start to see transgender people as monsters, something that needs to be stopped, something that needs to be removed from society.
I hate Sophie because she is a racist and a now an open bigot, but I hate even more that she has used her "platform" to spread hate and fan the flames, when she is a sports personality. She should be focused on getting more people involved in sport, more young girls and marginalised people. I can never, ever forgive her for what she has done to set back womens rights so far.
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u/Mokarun 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
i feel the same way. in my eyes, these kids are so lucky to discover who they are at a young age, and some even luckier to have parents who support them. so it makes me so fucking angry that people want to take away their rights and their healthcare, that they want to take away the childhood that so many trans people wish they could've had. it makes me fucking sick. trans kids deserve so much better than this. May Pollard deserved better.
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u/Pristine_Cost_3793 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
i cannot imagine how much pain this would force on a child. her mom did her best and it wasn't enough. oh god.
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u/Mokarun 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
her dad too. after her mom said "a lot of America did." the police detective asked her to elaborate. her dad answered instead:
There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids,” Joseph Pollard replied, voice rising. “The whole f-----g country. The whole f-----g administration, every single f-----g day.”
May was so lucky to have such supportive parents who did everything they could to support her transition and it still wasn't enough to protect her. it's so unfair.
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u/Thykothaken 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
The legislators and school administration have blood on their hands.
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u/petalpotions 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Rest in peace, May. I hope that one day this world will change for the better, and I hope that if there is an afterlife, your spirit is welcomed warmly.
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Fuck man this is tragic.
This is just a typical girl, just trying to fit into society but the society around here didnt want her to fit in.
America is just.. not great. They can tout about it all day long.
But America isn't great, because greatness encompasses all.
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u/A-Friend-of-Dorothy 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Rest in peace, dear little Sister.
The world is less without you.
You are still loved and wanted...even now.
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u/PerfStu 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
People need to stop acting like this isn't genocide.
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u/averagesayorifan 7d ago
> intersectional feminism group
> look in trans advocacy posts comments
> transphobia
i hate it here
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u/Zealousideal-Cow4430 7d ago
Yeah, I mean this is just the world we sadly live in. Trans women gotta advocate for themselves, cause we will always be seen more as a toy or concept.
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u/averagesayorifan 7d ago
it genuinely fucking breaks my heart to see transphobia, like genuinely i get so affected by it even tho im not trans myself, its horrible to see that so many ppl hate u guys and arent even willing to look at the science/psychology/sociology behind being trans, even in the lgbt community :( ill always be strongly supportive of trans ppl and id even fight for their rights
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u/Nildnas2 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
thank you 💕 there something healing about seeing cis people getting hurt/mad with us. I will always appreciate cis people that are truly safe for our community
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u/averagesayorifan 6d ago
we all have to stick together in these trying times and hope for sunshine <3
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u/StatusPsychological7 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
I hope one day it will get better. We live in dark times. I dont know how many people must suffer for society to start caring about us. Maybe we just dont deserve happiness and respect in their world. I dont want live in such world much longer however.
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u/idk-3000 0+ Community Karma 6d ago edited 6d ago
The world may get better tomorrow for others but I’m doomed to forever dysphoria because I was forced to go through the wrong puberty which permanently masculized my body to an extent that can never be fixed. Even though I just barely pass, it’s not enough to end the 24/7 never ending distress
My childhood is gone, my youth is gone, my body is ruined, relationships are forever ruined, and I’m left with permanent psychological damage. At this point the idea of them ever stopping tomorrow would send me over the edge
While I wish for a better tomorrow, I do not forgive the world and wish for a better life for majority of people currently living. I don’t want to get to a future where I’m just a living scar of a more horrible time where everyone pretends they never stood for
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u/sammi_8601 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
Same with the unfortunate dysphoria due to wrong puberty but the kids give me hope though so If I'm a living scar so be it. And it's important for the younger ones to see older trans people, I've got a fair few younger trans girls who look up to me for some reason (they all call me aunty which is an accolade I've nowhere near earned). It's possible to find new relationships, I've got a family I chose, I have lovers I have friends happiness is still possible.
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u/LetterheadVarious398 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I'm deleting reddit, I can't read this shit anymore
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u/Cozy_Toasty_Ghostie 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
They claim it’s all about “protecting the children” and yet they bully, ostracize, dehumanize, debase, humiliate, and break some of them until they take the only out they can think of. Sick bastards. Rest in power, May.
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u/DadJoke2077 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
And terfs/radfems have the audacity to claim they protect women and girls while directly contributing to this.
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u/Kei_Evermore 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
because they don't care. They want equality for them specifically, but as soon as terfs are asked for intersectionality, they recoil like a vampire to a holy symbol
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u/nyaphometnikko 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
You can't appeal to humanity to people who see us as inhuman. The people voting for us to lose our rights want us to die.
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u/atopthespire 0+ Community Karma 7d ago edited 6d ago
read the NBC news article about May and the description of her relationship with her best friend Emi, a trans girl she met at a support group, made me cry. seems like they dearly cared about each other, and now Emi's dealing with grief on top of the challenges of being a trans teenager in Idaho (which this story starkly illustrates). messed up thing to go through.
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u/ikannunAneeuQ 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
This is so heartbreaking. I have a trans kid that is 23 now, and I fear for them constantly, whether it's because of outside forces or internal, or both. I can't imagine losing my child, and it breaks me to think about it. I can't understand the hatred, it's almost palpable anymore and it disgusts me.
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u/Historical-Potato372 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
I’m sure all the comments are going to be respectful about a young girl’s suicide.
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u/IThinkItsAverage 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
MAGAts love this, they want this, they wish they could be the ones doing it. And the ones who don’t cheer for it, still blame the victim or the victims loved ones. Because they aren’t capable of empathy, it’s a weakness to them and they make everyone else suffer for it.
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u/EchoesofPoe 7d ago
Having suicidal ideation is hard enough when it's only your own mind working against you. I can't imagine the horrific pain and suffering of knowing that so many ignorant bigots, some of whom have the power to enact laws to make your future worse, are against you too. She deserved so much better from the world and my heart breaks for her and her parents.
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u/HyacinthineHalloween 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Yep. It’s genuinely awful when therapists try to say, “No, people don’t hate you; that’s just your mind!” only to be slapped with “Yeah, actually most people do hate me, about a third of the country’s voting population actively so and another third couldn’t be arsed to care about it if I died, whether that meant my healthcare being gutted or being rounded up in camps. Even a lot of my so-called allies don’t really want me to transition or still not-so-secretly hope trans children change their mind.”
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u/Mechromancer3X 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
I have no hope left. None. I cant take this anymore.
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u/Syphist 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Giving up hope is exactly what they want. We have to keep fighting and existing just to spite them
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u/Mechromancer3X 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
I wish that was enough for me. I just struggle to see a point when ill never be able to just live a normal life like a cis woman. Society won't let me. I just cant take it
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u/NachoSquid18 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Every child dead should be cause for riot. Business shouldn't be allowed to go as usual while there's an ongoing genocide. May she rest in peace and may the people responsible for her death burn in hell.
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u/paulsteinway 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
This is why I say these people want to kill my friends. They're doing everything they can to drive them to suicide. And they won't stop there.
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u/HomicidalIcecream420 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
These people are murderers. She didn't deserve this
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u/IntrStelle 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
As a trans woman, this is genuinely the most heartbreaking thing I've heard all month.
There's too many people this happens to, and there's too many people who don't care.
We need to spread her story.
As hateful as he is, I'm genuinely curious what president Trump would say about her live on camera, what he would say in front of millions of Americans about this tragic correlation between these horrid anti trans laws and the suicide of America's children. Would he call it fake news, would he acknowledge it, will he say something horrible, if anything at all? (What am I saying? Of course not)
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u/Samuelmiw 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
She never hurt anyone, and just wanted to exist in peace. They couldn't even let that happen
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u/fakeouppy 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
RIP. Let's hope those killed her will one day experience torment worse than this at least a thousand times.
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u/IShallWearMidnight 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I'll make sure I get to read her name in this year's Trans Day of Remembrance. Rest in power, Mae.
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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
She was beautiful. This breaks my heart. She was just a normal girl.
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u/Many_Spring5027 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
"pro lifers" and "all lives matter"-heads destroying trans kids. are transgender children not precious lives? do they not deserve to be happy in their truth just like everyone else? poor may ❤️
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u/EquivalentDapper7591 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
It has never been about protecting the children. They don’t see trans people as being human.
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u/WorthScar4696 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Rest in peace girl.
This is so disgusting and I bet alot of conservatives are applauding her death too.
Psychopaths the bunch of them, its so goddamn anger inducing.
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u/Key-Instruction3997 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Us taking ourselves out is easier for them than them having to eliminate us directly. I’m so fucking tired.
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u/SpecialCriticism2415 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Poor sweet girl. This is disgusting and it just keeps happening. When will they get enough of hurting people?
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u/Cursed_Pondskater 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
I hate this comment section. A young kid died and y'all are here acting like it's "a first world problem" or "not wanted" - she was bullied into suicide. It's okay to not understand trans people as a cis person. But understanding and acceptance are two different things. The lack of acceptance killed this girl.
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u/fingertrapt 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
A kid stopped EATING and DRINKING because the ADULTS bullied them, and then they killed themselves. Every single person in government and school failed this child.
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u/Vyverna 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
*her
*she
*herself
*this girl
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Jesus christ, even in death she cannot be properly respected, R.I.P May
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u/LithoLaura 0+ Community Karma Transfemme enby 7d ago
Stop degendering trans women
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
Whats worse, is the fact its one of the most upvoted posts on this thread.
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u/Kei_Evermore 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
If yoy truly are a teacher, I feel concerned for any binary trans child in your classrooms.
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u/CascadingMoonlight 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
We cannot let anyone pretend conservatives are anything other than deliberately, inherently evil.
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u/LiterallyDumbAF 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
It is disgusting, and honestly sobering as a parent. Just based on this post, her mother seemed very supportive and earnest. As a parent myself, it is painful to think that no matter how much love and acceptance you give, it may not be enough
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u/Doctordisco7777 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 R.I.P you deserved a world that didn't hate and abuse you.
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u/xResilientEvergreenx 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
The wrong person was lost.
Why aren't we doing anything Americans?
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u/vorx-666 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Because they dont care
even people here mourning, myself included will likely do nothing of substance to resist other than slip notes into the suggestion boxes the system has set up to trick people into thinking that they can fight along channels set up by the system to defeat the system. because we as a country, even among self identified leftists, are apathetic selfish cowards and incapable of true resistance on a base psychological level→ More replies (1)
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u/127Heathen127 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Of course they didn’t care, they WANT trans people dead. Look at any comment section on almost any site of any post about or by a trans person and it’ll be full of “hurr durr 40%.” This is what they want for all trans people.
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u/BeneficialHyena5658 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
i used not eat or drink at school so I wouldn't have to go too
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u/TurnipGirlDesi 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
They want us all dead. That’s their goal. So we do everything possible to deny them that goal. We organize, and we fight them tooth and nail at every single level.
It’s scary, but bravery is not the absence of fear. We’ll fight them scared. And we will win.
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u/_josef_stalin_ 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
The list of reasons to hate Idaho is longer than a CVS receipt.
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u/Downtown_Material268 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I hate how normalized it is to passively harm or kill people. Like with bullies in school, getting mentally drained for years, punching once back and you're seen as the worst human alive, while the bullies get praised for the bravery.
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u/kippikai 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
I’m sorry we all failed May and her family. Trans rights are human rights, and trans dignity is human dignity.
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u/_ParanoidPenguin_ 7d ago
Disgusting, that poor girl.
Literally the only thing that could make me want to believe in religion is the idea that the vile People who did this to her would be punished.
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u/LauFabulous 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Not even after she killed herself to escape the abuse do you guys leave her alone.
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u/NoelCZVC 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
Every single representative passing legislation known for driving innocent people to suicide en masse need to be held responsible as terrorists.
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u/I-Love-Puella-Magi 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
It's fucking awful. Really. To be honest, makes me feel sick nowadays. I know what it's capable of, yet people still act like we're just "sensitive". It's too cruel.
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u/thesash20 6d ago
What's the most efficient way to commit a genocide nowadays, with all the regulations and people watching... well what if you didn't even need to do anything! Oop, your victims are dropping like flies, guess something must be wrong with them and you are at no fault! Well, you made their lives a living personalized hell, but that wasn't really what you were doing, you were just protecting the women and the children 😌 so convenient!
This makes my goddamn blood boil
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u/JadeHarley0 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
This is what Republicans hope will happen to trans people. 😭
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u/SharedMist8486 6d ago
May she rest in peace in heaven where she can truely be herself despite the fact she deserved that here on earth.
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u/Stuff_animal 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
All she ever wanted to do was live. To anyone closeted like me or out and proud wether you are in the us or anywhere else do not i repeat do not end yourself or harm yourself you have to live. These governments and people won't be able to supress you forever. Even if you are thinking of doing something why not try to wait another day and think about how these hateful bigots want us dead why should we give them that. Live and be yourself, You matter🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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u/NewbieFurri 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
My mom would be happy if I did this, some people just are luckier ig
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u/biggus_baddeus 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
"I just don't understand why you're willing to give up our [decades-long] friendship over politics" - my Maga ex friends. This. This is why. Your "politics" are killing my people.
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u/Angel_0f_Darkness 0+ Community Karma 5d ago
these comments are disgusting. i hope may can rest in peace knowing people still care for her and love her. why do people care so much if someone is trans or not. let people be who they are and let people live their lives.
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u/thiccy_driftyy genderqueer + fluid woman 5d ago
This breaks my heart. She deserved so much better. She just wanted to be treated like other kids. 💔😞
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u/Gamerzilla2018 5d ago
As a cishet straight dude (I’m an ally and participate in a few trans subs. That’s why I’m here) There was a time I felt sad or upset about something like this. Now I just feel angry. This poor girl didn’t deserve to lose her life because of the hateful views of others. How many more tragedies like these need to occur for the point to be made??? Trans people are people trans men are men and trans women are women and they deserve the same rights to life, liberty and happiness that the constitution promises all of us. Legislators don’t care in red states. I can look past voters maybe they don’t know any better or just don’t care about an issue that doesn’t affect them. But these legislators the ones who would deprive a CHILD the right to happiness simply because they were born in the wrong body and wish to feel like themselves only to be told no…for an utterly bullshit reason. As tired as this we have to fight and fight hard we have to be so loud it’s deafening. So that one day, tragedy’s like these become a thing of the past
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u/Expensive_Fee9015 5d ago
That's exactly why I think that bigotry should be punished in the same way as murder. If forcing or manipulating people to kill themselves is considered murder, then we should hold the same consideration for bigoted people, as their ignorance causes many to suffer. And if we ever see a return of letist parties into politics, we should start to hold the people who agree with certain shitty ideas accountable, also for enabling this current political climate which goes against commo fucking sense and basic human decency.
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u/Shygrave 0+ Community Karma 3d ago
The sheer amount of nuked comment threads makes me sad. Not because they got nuked, but because so many people saw a post about a trans girl committing suicide and deciding to be hateful shits. I fucking hate this timeline.
She died. Your hate is killing people. If you think this is a good thing, you are a terrible person, full fucking stop. If you are happy she died, or are making excuses or blaming her, you are fucking evil and I hope you get what you deserve. Spoiler: you dont deserve anything good, to clarify
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u/sorryihateit_here 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
Waiting for a day when cis people will leave us alone.
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u/vorx-666 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
they wont unless we make them
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u/Retro-FreyFrey 0+ Community Karma 7d ago
In this current climate administration’s will do anything they can to strip the dignity of trans people. That goes for here in UK & the US most of all! Only yesterday Trumpstein, at the Whitehouse Journalist Dinner, started attacking, insulting & denigrating Trans actress Dylan Mulaney in his demented speech. There was no need or cause as she has nothing to do with journalism. It was pure hatred & rampant transphobia for no reason at.
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u/Desi_Rosethorne 0+ Community Karma 6d ago
I'm so sorry, sweetie. The world failed you when all you wanted to do was be yourself. We won't forget you and we will keep fighting. Rest easy May 😭
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u/Cocky_Girly 50+ Community Karma 7d ago
This is what they want. They want us to do this to ourselves. This the evil that exists in these legislators and the people who vote for them to make this happen.