I lost a lot of a lot of sense of safety there and in the same way that people, maybe in a way it was an illusion of safety that I was able to hold on to a lot longer than a lot of other people in a lot of other places. [...] And also at the same time there were sort of like growing anti trans laws happening in the United States and like other attacks in the world that really just culminated I think in a lot of trans people feeling incredibly unsafe during the pandemic for a lot of different reasons. [...] That I'm kind of lucky to be where I am in a lot of ways and there's absolutely no guarantee that if that if I lost that, if I lost a job that I would ever be able to recover from that. [...] People you know, accepted that they were going to get COVID a whole bunch of times and be in danger of that you know that same kind of violence themselves, or they or they had to get out, so that also became a kind of a kind of a hostile place that drove a lot of people out. [...] I think in a lot of ways COVID has just shown us that the experience of being trans or nonbinary and the challenges that we have because of that, the levels of discrimination, the lack of access to health care, it's all just been magnified and.
- Pages
- 4
- Published in
- Canada
