I'm so sorry, support + hugs if wanted.Morhighan wrote:I just took my boyfriend to the ER. He got a 5150, so he'll be held in a psych ward for 72 hours. Then they'll either release him or hold him up to 10 days. I'm really bad at being alone, so I'm not looking forward to this time apart.
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(Separating these by a divide because this was what I was originally going to post, but I couldn't remember if posting twice in a row was against the forum rules.)
Just venting on a personal note, here in my state we have seen a resurgence of a lot of anti-trans bigotry, and a hate group has been lobbying to remove anti-discrimination protections from us. I've been doing a lot of community work to protect these rights, but it's been a really hard battle.
Three of my trans friends who live in my town were assaulted in the months of Feb. and Mar. Just today, I was telling my partner about my week and I realized that I've had two trans friends hospitalized due to suicide attempts and another assaulted. Just in one week.
And the more depressing part of this realization was that my friends being assaulted and suicidal is so commonplace that this frequency doesn't even stand out anymore. I no longer feel surprised or shocked when I hear about these kinds of things happening to my friend, instead it's just "Oh, you too? We're here for you, you're not alone."
Like, I don't even bring it up to my therapist because it's every day. There are multiple discussions of suicide every day on my fb wall, and an assault happens at least once per week. It's so normalized to me, it's just like... this is my life now.
The greater publicity of all of these issues has just made things worse for our daily lives, because it hasn't been accompanied by increased acceptance + protections, so it's just hell. I don't even know how to deal with this anymore, I am so overwhelmed, all there is left is to just keep going forward, sending support when I can and fighting to keep the hate group out of power.
