"[...] not only are our lives at risk, but we weren't doing all that great to begin with. But instead of having the platforms and space to advance our own needs, people seeking our destruction get to define what issues are addressed.
"I'll defend trans athletes all day, but it was hardly at the top of anyone's list of priorities for what trans people need. If trans people were at the center of the public conversation about us, you'd hear a lot more about housing, health care, safe schools and communities."
-- Gillian Branstetter (GBBranstetter), 2022-09-10
"I'm on an advisory board here in Mpls that did a suggestion box at Pride this year of issues the trans community needs addressed). Sports was listed on one. Everything else was housing and discrimination protections." -- Mx. D. E. Anderson (diannaeanderson), in reply