Weren't these the assholes who wrote op-eds about participation trophies?

With a cup of infantilization thrown in for good measure.

As someone who cares about *accurate* trans history, I cannot see someone that actively campaigns against trans people as someone to respect, whether or not she is herself a trans person.

That we're talking resigning or firing for a wealthy white asshole rather than jail time exposes the problems of the carceral state.

That said, as a CO voter, I'm glad you are speaking up at least as much as you are.

The system is broken. This idea that you can get quality medical care from another provider who bills insurance way less, but you just want the expensive one, is fantasy. It's actually hard to get seen by a specialist at all, without even thinking about insurance, cost, location, etc.

(Meant to start that with "Every trans person who is *employed* is on a knife edge)

The key here is that a (all things equal) cis person wouldn't get fired for these things. Because the transphobe won't make a viral "ick, gross, trans person" post on X about a cis person. But a trans person will get fired because a transphobe was shitty.

But, wait, isn't that illegal?

You won't be fired for "being trans." You'll be fired for a random performance thing where your work wasn't perfect. Or maybe because you of some minor transgression that the transphobe mentioned. Even if it's not work-related, they'll say you hurt work's reputation.

Nevermind almost all of this requires formal diagnosis, and that is easier to do if you have money. Poor families often lack access to diagnosis. And many disabled people have disabilities that get in the way of getting the very accommodations they need.

If you had any sort of disability and needed any accommodations at uni, was the responsibility (or the practical requirement) put on you to talk to your profs to get it done? Did you need to figure out what you need to attend class? Non-disabled people don't have to do this work.

I didn't get accommodations in any of these ways. I suspect most people don't even know these things could exist as accommodations. None lower the academic rigor. None of them give me an advantage of students without a disability. I suspect most disabled people have similar thoughts.

If you have anxiety and went to uni, did you get help with that? For instance, I have anxiety entering spaces I've never been in before and can use personalized tours, photos of spaces and entrances, and/or maps (I need more than is on a typical campus map). Did you get things like that?