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[elainegrey]

I posted about the ... gut punch... of health and human services rule making defining gender to facebook. I tend to be as guarded and apolitical at facebook as i can because i generally find it to be a problematic format and forum. I dunno, maybe i'll delete this, even.

It's been hard to find a term to describe my feeling. Gut punch is about it. Am i surprised or shocked? Not really: It's an obvious move. I suppose one can see a gut punch coming, the visceral response is there regardless of the lack of surprise. I'm not a person with an affinity for anger, so that's not stoked. I am a person who is well conditioned to shut down all feelings and just cope with moving to day to day. I am trying to let myself *feel*.

Oh my, time for work.


Exhausted.

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[amaebi]

I am so terribly sorry. :(

[arlie]

*sigh* I figure this is Trump being outrageous as an election ploy. Or rather, trying to provoke a kind of outrage that, he expects, will play badly with what few un-committed voters are left, compared e.g. to tax cuts for the rich, trade wars raising prices, etc. Or various of his appointees being indicted. Or even net neutrality. Even bog standard Republicans *might* have issues with those, but only the few remaining libertarian Republicans have any chance of caring about laws declaring that pi equals 3 - with or without oppressive intentions and effects. Or at least that's his electoral calculus, as far as I can tell. Besides, he gets his jollies out of bullying people, and so everyone's upset would be heaps of fun for him.

OTOH, I'm pretty insulated from the emotional effects, being the kind of genderqueer that has no personal understanding of gender identity. I'm sorry this is hitting you so hard. And also sorry about other people who are probably equally distressed. But that's what I expect from this bastard, and it's probably better than what we'd get from Pence. *sigh*

[zyzyly]

It's hard to be surprised by anything that happens these days, but this actually surprised me, and really made me wonder where this country is headed.

[egret]

It is terribly upsetting. *sends good wishes*

[fflo]

Last night I started to make a contribution to HIAS, but when it insisted I pick a gendered honorific, I stopped trying. Screw that.

We should all stand together on this and make it stop. Or maybe just a lot of us could? I dunno. I hate how most people are all binary and loyal to binary if not outright defensive of it.