The USA has declared transgender people to be enemies of the state. So where to now?

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:01]Hi, it's Polly here. Well, this is a difficult one to make.

[00:00:07]>> [sighs] >> The evil regime in the USA has declared transgender people to be enemies of the state.

[00:00:16]With an additional addenda from Donald Trump saying that uh >> [sighs] [gasps] >> enemies of the state will be tracked down and killed.

[00:00:26]This applies to all people who disagree with that regime, by the way.

[00:00:31]But trans people, they got the special mention.

[00:00:35]I didn't want to talk to you now without having something to say as far as a plan of action goes. There are enough people grizzling on on the internet.

[00:00:46]We need action.

[00:00:49]Okay, so first off, threat analysis. How real is the threat?

[00:00:56]Um right.

[00:00:59]Although Donald Trump speaks in hyperbole, >> [sighs] >> the intent is there.

[00:01:08]The written intent of Project 2025 has always been the genocidal erasure of transgender people.

[00:01:19]And this project is being enacted with the full force of the state.

[00:01:28]So, >> [sighs] >> in a real sense, what we're talking about is the force of the state being used to erase transgender people. However, they can do it, however they can get away with it.

[00:01:40]What does it mean in real terms? What it means in actual real terms is they've decided to flag transgender activists and the support organizations that transgender people rely on as enemy actors.

[00:01:57]as terrorists.

[00:02:00]Which means we won't be able to rely on support from these organizations.

[00:02:07]Which means it is easier for them to push more and more of their vile legislation.

[00:02:16]>> [sighs] >> There is going to be a huge fight in the USA.

[00:02:23]It's trembling on a knife's edge. It is about to become a single party state, and I'm not sure the population of the USA realizes this fully.

[00:02:35]Overseas, we do not understand it.

[00:02:39]We we we we don't understand how it's been let to get to this stage.

[00:02:44]>> [sighs] >> In most things in most things I ask yourself, what would the French do? What would France be like at this stage?

[00:02:56]Let's take a look at I don't know how they protested the loss of pensions the other year, but I digress.

[00:03:05]That threat to our support mechanisms is very real.

[00:03:12]And without the little shadow of their protection, it does mean that transgender people in the USA will be subjected to more indignities and more real-life threats.

[00:03:26]Those threats are loss of health care, particularly our hormone care.

[00:03:34]>> [sighs] >> Discrimination, which means loss of jobs and livelihoods.

[00:03:39]And laws that will try and criminalize our ability to appear and live in public.

[00:03:48]What can we do?

[00:03:50]>> [sighs and gasps] >> I've spoken often enough about the need for political action and cultural action. We'll return to that.

[00:04:01]But in a very real sense, we return to what I've often spoken to you about, which is community.

[00:04:08]Our communities are going to have to provide the support for our members that larger >> [sighs] >> cross state and federal organizations cannot.

[00:04:23]What do I mean by community support?

[00:04:25]>> [sighs and gasps] >> Well, I can illustrate it with stories, but there are some stories that are much harder luck than my own.

[00:04:33]Um I have friends here probably watching this channel who have terrible backstories. Most old Most older trans women do.

[00:04:41]I don't own the rights to tell their stories, that's for them to tell.

[00:04:47]So, let me just briefly tell you a small part of mine.

[00:04:51]Mine goes back through child abuse and conversion therapies and yes, it's fairly horrible. But I've been fully out as a as a transgender woman now since about 2019.

[00:05:08]But I tried to come out earlier and that failed miserably.

[00:05:14]It failed miserably because at that stage, like so many of us, I was married and I had grown up in a very evangelical family and the remnants of that were still pretty tightly around me.

[00:05:29]I had fought to try and express my true gender identity for a long time.

[00:05:35]I finally decided to open out to my partner and explain what it was I was feeling, what it what I was thinking and how I thought I might be transgender and we are talking a quarter of a century almost now.

[00:05:53]And it failed miserably.

[00:05:55]I was immediately told that I was uh you know an evil pervert.

[00:06:00]And the marriage collapsed. The family closed in, seized the children, and whisked them away to another state. Had to go through legal procedures for the rights to see my own children, etc. So, I ended up losing every single thing I've ever owned.

[00:06:17]But I didn't lose everything I owned in my heart.

[00:06:25]My Dungeons and Dragons group, my games group took me in.

[00:06:30]They took me into their house and gave me a home.

[00:06:34]Now, I'd lost everything. I had no income, no possessions, nothing. These guys took me in and looked after me.

[00:06:41]They fed me, clothed me, they helped cover my needs as I managed to find some small means to support myself.

[00:06:50]To this day, I still live with them.

[00:06:52]They are now my family of choice. And over the years, they've started to have health problems and so on.

[00:07:02]I am mentally and physically back on my feet and wonderfully out as me, but now I look after them and they look after me, but I look after them.

[00:07:13]Um one of these people has become disabled, so >> [sighs] >> you know, when they can't walk, I'm their legs. When they can't reach for things, I'm their hands.

[00:07:23]That's what chosen family does.

[00:07:28]That's what we have to all be for each other now. We have to be ready to look for those amongst us who are in need and in trouble and take them in and cover what you can of their needs.

[00:07:43]This is how we'll survive it because our communities are family.

[00:07:47]They're our chosen family.

[00:07:49]And they mean more to us than anything in the world.

[00:07:54]That can cover inabilities to appear in public because we still have our friends and our home and our own communal places to be where we can be ourselves. For those who've lost jobs and livelihoods, we can through mutual aid cover needs, food, shelter, and medications.

[00:08:18]Between us, we are resourceful enough to black market this sort of stuff. We can find it no matter what. We have We have for decades been able to do this and we'll keep doing it because we are as we are and we are who we are and we ain't going nowhere, Buster.

[00:08:39]We have to be able to become chosen family to one another.

[00:08:45]Now, the political and cultural side of things I've spoken to everyone about before and it's more important than ever.

[00:08:52]The most important things that can be done at the moment is public life, to live publicly and unafraid.

[00:09:01]Because the thing that strikes down the lie is the evidence of our actual lives.

[00:09:09]You can't drag someone into court for the crime of walking down a street or popping into a shop to buy some milk and bread.

[00:09:19]These are not the actions of terrorists.

[00:09:22]These actions are not terrorism.

[00:09:25]And a true court in a true democracy cannot seize you as such.

[00:09:32]The USA has become an anarchocracy.

[00:09:35]Look it up. Not a democracy.

[00:09:40]But, people still believe in democracy.

[00:09:45]We will have to live our lives publicly and show that we have the strength to do so.

[00:09:52]If the rest of the populace is too too frightened to fight, we have to.

[00:09:57]We have to make our stand and show other people that they can.

[00:10:03]It's very important that we live our lives publicly.

[00:10:08]It's also very important that we become politically active in every single way that we can.

[00:10:16]I know we just want to live our ordinary lives.

[00:10:21]>> [sighs and gasps] >> We can't.

[00:10:24]It's not that point in history.

[00:10:29]It's like Lord of the Rings.

[00:10:31]I wish this hadn't happened.

[00:10:34]It has. And we're the ones on the spot.

[00:10:37]For all those transgender people that will come after us, we have to fight for them.

[00:10:45]This is our fight for their future.

[00:10:50]We are being tested now and we have to show we were strong enough to be here for them.

[00:10:59]It is our finest hour and we we we should embrace it as such.

[00:11:06]>> [sighs and gasps] >> In the political and cultural arenas, we have to make our creativity known.

[00:11:13]Our stories have to be told. Our personal stories have to be told. Our history has to be preserved.

[00:11:20]I've said it before, but get involved in dramatic productions.

[00:11:24]Get involved in dance.

[00:11:26]Get your stories published. Self-publish if you can.

[00:11:30]Get involved in things like science fiction conventions, conventional organization, >> [gasps] >> charities which have face-to-face with the public where you can be seen to be an ordinary person interfacing with the public and helping.

[00:11:47]And get active harassing politicians.

[00:11:52]Part of each day should be emailing and phoning and writing and trying to arrange face-to-face meetings with these people who are supposed to be your representatives, who are supposed to be there fighting for you.

[00:12:06]The edifice that Trump [snorts] and his regime has built may seem to be overwhelming.

[00:12:14]They are not as strong as us and they are not as numerous as us.

[00:12:18]To be who you are took a level of strength they will never know.

[00:12:25]We are strong as individuals and we are stronger as a community.

[00:12:31]Don't be frightened by golden statues and banners.

[00:12:37]We've seen how those fall.

[00:12:41]Remember those beautiful images of swastikas in Nuremberg blowing to bits, of soldiers tearing down Nazi banners and putting up the hammer and sickle.

[00:12:58]It's going to happen again as well.

[00:13:02]We have always been here and we always always will.

[00:13:11]And we're going to help each other through this because we're trans and there's no joy like trans joy.

[00:13:19]Anyway, look after yourselves, my friends. Look after yourselves carefully.

[00:13:26]Stockpile up as best you can anticipating hard times and keep in touch with the other people in your community and see who needs a helping hand.

[00:13:40]And if you can offer it.

[00:13:44]We're family and family care for their own.

[00:13:48]All right, much much love to you all and I will be seeing you all on the other side of this.

[00:13:55]Never ever doubt that.

[00:13:59]Much love.