that they become desperate - the could commit suicide.
Not because they are weak. Not because they are damaged - but because they can't be who they are. Because they have found a niche, a place of acceptance, and somewhere they can get the care they need, and serve their country - something they wanted to do.
They finally got acceptance in the military only to have it ripped out from under them.
They finally got to drop the mask. Drop the act. They got to stop pretending to be someone they weren't and got to be themselves.
Trump took that from them today.
He took their dignity.
What Trump did today is a blow to their very core.
He said they were a burden and not worth it. Not worth it.
Their president - their commander in chief - told them they weren't worth it.
Can you imagine how that feels?
I live on a military post. I know transgender soldiers. I have seen the fear on their faces over the last month and today was a crushing blow.
If one of them kills themselves, as far as I'm concerned - Trump murdered them.
Gender dysphoria has a high suicide rate as it is - the fear, the worry about how they will be treated, accepted, not being able to live as the person they are. They judgment of others. The cruelty of others.
Now add to that your life being shattered. The life you worked so hard for being stolen away from you with the swipe of a pen.
The happiness you felt when the policy first changed (under Obama) and you gained legal acceptance in a job you love - with the life you had built - only to have it all stripped away because Trump is a cruel, bigoted piece of garbage.
You could finally be who you are and be that person openly - and now some monster has come along and taken it all from you.
I hate him. I hate him. I hate him.
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