06/01/2025
Happy Pride to us all!
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month
📍 When we visited NYC, I took Kam to Stonewall National Monument in NYC – where the q***r community fought back against oppression and demanded to be seen, to be heard, to exist.🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
And before you @ me- yes, this directly relates to my page as Autistic people are more likely to be LGBTQ+ (although even if it wasn’t, I can still post whatever I’d like on my page 😉)
There was a time when people said women shouldn’t vote. When humans were enslaved. When schools and businesses were segregated because of the color of one’s skin. When being openly gay was illegal. Each time, those in power justified discrimination—and each time, history proved them wrong. ⭐️ History is always on the side of the oppressed, not the oppressor.
Now, trans rights are under attack, and the government has even tried to remove the “T” from LGBTQ+ at Stonewall. But erasing a community doesn’t make them disappear. It just makes them more vulnerable. Trans youth face alarmingly high su***de rates and are more likely to be targeted for hate crimes—not because of who they are, but because of how the world treats them.
If you’ve ever said or thought “all lives matter,” I ask you to revisit that idea. Because that must include trans lives, too.
I’m teaching my child to see beyond fear and division, to embrace others as they are. I want him to grow up knowing that every person deserves to live and be accepted as their authentic self—even if they are different from us or if we don’t fully understand.
Stonewall was a turning point, but the fight for dignity and equality isn’t over. What side of history do you want to be on? 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈