Dear cis people

After seeing the post on r/askcanada, I wanted to address you cisfolx. I looked at r/askcisallies but there are only 30 members. So I wanted to post this here. First, thank you to our allies, I'm scared as fuck and the cis allies I have in my life are amazing. I've been having serious conversations with my stronger allies, including my manager, about the current situation. I've made the same request of them that I now bring to you.

We in the trans community can't fight this fight. If we are alone, we will loose. We make up less than 1% of the population. None of us know how bad this is going to get, but a lot of us are realizing it's going to be worse than we hoped for and possibly worse than we feared.

An anecdote, shortly after the inauguration while on my way to the gender neutral restroom in my work place I watched a daughter leading her boomer father to the restroom and when he saw the sign that said, "gender neutral" he lost his fucking mind. I turned around and hoped out of there. I don't know what that man thought was going to happen if he went in there, but I know for certain that if I tried to explain it's just a family restroom that he would have taken his anger out on me. I mostly pass, but I still have the random person who clocks me a d that was a risk I was unwilling to take. This is not an isolated incident. I've also noticed an uptick in people looking at me in disgust, or glaring at me.

A second anecdote, some years back i read something a black woman wrote that wgite people need to fix the racism directed at black people, because it ain't a black problem, it's a white problem.

So, to our allies who utilize this sub to be better, y'all need to deal with this shit. This ain't a trans problem, this is a cis problem. Trans people are just trying to live our lives and right now for a lot of us just showing up to work is what we can handle.

Sincerely, Pm_me_flowers_please