Hello. My name is Jen Dantes. I am:
- a married transgender white woman
- a technical support professional
- a writer
- a diabetic
- a person suffering from depression
I am all these things. All of them help to define me.
This is me being visible in the face of a government that wants to stifle me, deny me, say I don’t exist or am mentally ill (well, I knew that part) or am some kind of horrible person for the sheet reason of what I am. I am standing up and telling them no, in this little way.
Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, you move.”
– Captain America
No, transphobes and MAGA and TERFS and all the rest of you who hate me for claiming my own identity.
You move.
If you don’t like it? Go to hell.
