totally agree. flying to seattle early in my transition and the first thing i did was share the light rail with so many other trans women and it immediately was a balm on my anxieties
she's genuinely become one of the most vile individuals. not just on the macro/political level, which is horrific -- imagine trying to have tea with her
went to a unitarian service this morning (idk you gotta meet people somehow) and actually felt ok going out like this cuz i figured (correctly) that the cis libs who make up the congregation would eat it up
one of the ways i kept myself in the closet for years was thinking how it's 'better' that old men get to have beards to hide their aging face vs old women. which is dumb in general but especially in my case cuz my patchy beard wasn't hiding anything