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As a Transgender Woman, I’ve Felt Like a Third-Class Citizen in My Own, U.S. Country — and That Was Before Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Monday
It’s been two years and two months since I came out as a transgender woman. Even in the Los Angeles area, where I moved from Utah four months later, treatment of me has been cunningly cruel. More content pieces will regard such instances, but what I want to say in this one: it’s made me feel like a third-class citizen in my own country, the United States.
And that was before U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-transgender executive order Monday, which recognizes genders only assigned at birth.
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Following the order and the political climate Trump is fostering, how much worse will it get? (We also saw what he thought of a plea made to him to have mercy on transgender children [in Republican, Democratic and independent families].)
Before I came out, I certainly felt like a first-class American citizen. I am white and appeared male and non-queer looking. And I definitely felt that way before I lost my faith in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/started…
