Mia Wong

And, you know, I think the example of the doctor who helped one of the people I interviewed, you know, get around the band to get top surgery.

I think that's the minimum, honestly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, OK, if you support trains rights, start here, because I think pressure from that quarter, as we've seen, hits even harder on some of these institutions, you know, because while they claim to be this above everything kind of hierarchy, we have seen worries about losing numbers of Catholics being involved in the church has driven their decisions before and more pressure will drive them again.

Potentially, you know, like, yeah, I think it will like what we've seen pretty clearly just in my lifetime is when these institutions are under attack, when folks go on the offensive against them culturally, you know, socially with direct militant organizing like ACT UP did.

then we see some of our rights and liberation advance shockingly quickly in some cases compared to where they were.

And when that is relaxed on, when they are given space to gather power and plan and go back on the attack, then things get a lot worse very quickly.

This can be fought.

The first part of fighting it is to talk about it, to be vocal about it, to be loud, and talk about how it is unacceptable.

I think, frankly, a lot of pressure can also be exerted on some of these gay inkworks.

Like, if they want any donations or any support, I don't think they should get a lot of donations or support.

I think there's better places to put it.

But if they don't want to become pariahs in queer and trans communities, that needs to be the message.

Like, you need to fight this.

You need to fight this hard.

You need to fight this now.

Because to do otherwise, I think, is just an act of

unforgivable cowardice and treason in wartime, to kind of use a metaphor.

But, you know, we always end our pieces at TNN because I think, I mean, there was a joke about it I saw recently of, like, it is the sacred role of trans journalism to, you know, unnecessarily scare trans people beyond all measure.