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Letters & Interactions LV encourages community members, including candidates for office, to submit letters to Editor@LittleVillageMag.com. To be considered for print publication, letters should be under 500 words. Preference is given to letters that have not been published elsewhere. DEAR GOVERNOR REYNOLDS, OK. We’re both adults here and I don’t feel the need to bullshit you, so here we go. I’m not writing this to appeal to your humanity, because I know you don’t see me as a human being. If you could see trans people of any age as actual human beings, you wouldn’t be using the legal system to commit violence against literal children and their families and friends and supporters and caregivers. If you could see trans people as human beings, you’d realize that attempting to create some legal definition of “womanhood” is not only impossible, it’s extremely harmful and marginalizing and is, again, violence. Excluding people from society is violence and also just like, shitty. And you know what’s fucked up? I think
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you know that. I think you would probably say, “Well, yes, we’re excluding them from society, but we need to do that to protect society.” No real surprises there, that’s pretty common rhetoric from people like you. “We’re excluding them from society, but we need to do that to protect society” is an excuse that’s used across the board to discriminate against (and murder!) trans people, queer people, people of color, Indigenous people, disabled people, Jews, Muslims, immigrants—basically anybody who does not look and think and act like you (you, in this case, being Kim Reynolds, paragon of Good White Christian Womanhood or whatever the fuck). So yeah, I’m not writing this to appeal to you as a human being, I’m writing this because you’re shitty and I hate you. I’m mad at you for
