#letters4transkids
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Since@inafried started #Letters4TransKids in defiance of this recent wave of anti-trans and LGBTQ+ legislation, we knew we HAD to write one, too! Read the letter from our ED, Brian Wenke, and join in to write your own letter using the hashtag #Letters4TransKids:
“Dear Rockstar,
Adults seem to have an easy time forgetting what it’s like to be young. I am dumbfounded daily by the vitriol adults are purposely casting at LGBTQ+ youth, particularly our beloved trans community.
Despite what may appear to be a rising tide of negative sentiment directed at you and your peers, I can’t help but see it as the dying breath of an outdated form of conditioning. We’ve been here before. It won’t last, but it won’t go down without a fight.
If any of the individuals trying to limit your freedoms met you, they would understand how important you are. You elevate the world’s understanding of what it means to be human - a beautiful sentient being with an experience so complex modern language cannot describe it. Your value transcends the hateful rhetoric of a loud minority. I promise you, there are more people in this world who will fight for your existence than those who seek to diminish it.
I will fight for you. The It Gets Better Project will fight for you. Countless millions will fight for you without question. Open yourself up to the love coming your way. Be you, unapologetically, and show by example of your life the joy that can come from it. You are loved, and you are a f***ing rockstar!
Stay Proud, Brian”
Pink News reports that countless trans people are speaking out about their childhoods by writing letters to transgender kids in order to give them some perspective and hope for the future.
Here’s the latter from Arthur Webber, a transgender man:
“I was a trans kid.
My nights were spent praying that in the morning would be a boy. would wake up disappointed.
However, I already was a boy no divine intervention required.
On Christmas Eve aged 7, l cut off all my own hair and enthusiastically told my family that I finally was a boy. I had been watching The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, so perhaps took the image of children coming out of a closet too literally.
However, I already was a boy no (terrible) haircut needed.
When I met other children on holiday, I would tell them I was a boy. I’d avoid giving them my name and say I was born without one. Which everybody is, really. The devastation I felt when my family would fetch me using my deadname and reveal that the outside world believed was a girl still lingers with me.
However, I already was a boy. was a trans kid like you. It’s a limited edition gift with no receipt. Sometimes you’d give anything to return it because it’s too hard to look after, but most of the time you’re thankful that it’s unique.”
