You know, those of us in the community who are more vulnerable, and I imagine that this survey was done closer to the beginning of the pandemic here we are almost 3 1/2 years in and for some of us it still feels as fresh as if it were still the beginning of 2020 because other people behavior has transformed, but a lot of us are still having to stay pretty close to home because we're not out of the. [...] And in terms of friends, I mean again I think what is so hard about being chronically ill is that it tends to shrink your world as it stands, and so then to have that really be magnified has been really difficult, but it, I do think that, yeah, it really bears emphasizing that one of the things and I don't want to be a huge downer about it. [...] But I think that especially in spaces where social justice is supposed to be really upheld and everybody is saying all the right things it can really be a proverbial slap in the face to see that people who talk about safety and inclusion and really, you know trumpet that to the world are then the people who aren't necessarily making space for you, and so there's this really profound type of loneli. [...] Are there other things that you can think of that are specific to the experience of being trans or nonbinary related to this social isolation or lack of connection that you'd like to share? Shadi Yeah, I think that a lot of the phenomena just tend to be magnified. [...] You know the kind of job that you have to go out and do, you know, affects your level of exposure like we are going to be one of those communities where people are going to probably be in more higher risk situations out of necessity.
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