Efforts to erase transgender people from various places and functions in American society have accelerated in the past five years. It is incomprehensible to watch the dramatic changes against transgender individuals being made by a single political party. These changes are being attempted in lock-step fashion in multiple states that have Republican supermajorities in both branches of their state legislatures, including Kansas and Indiana. This concerted effort has been prompted at the federal level by the Trump administration in execution of an overall strategy that was laid out by Christian nationalists in the blueprint known as Project 2025. Six years ago, in June 2020, the Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. In that case, the majority held that workplace actions taken against transgender employees could indeed be civil rights violations against individuals protected by existing civil rights law for discrimination based on gender. Encouraged by that decision, I decided the time had come for me to move forward with the final step in my social conversion to affirm and assert my identity as female. Five years ago, in May 2021, I held a meetin
