A message to the UK supreme court: Transgender people do not scare me, you do.

Do not point at a scapegoat and scream that you see claws.

I spent days trying to write a post this month. I wrote, and rewrote, and deleted. I was just too angry. I still am. This week the UK Supreme Court, the British Transport Police, the BBC, and even my own algorithm has made itself an enemy. They, and no doubt countless other organisations that will soon follow suit, have attacked some of the people most dear to my heart. They are also attacking tens of thousands of people I do not know. All of these people deserve more than respect.

I am not an angry person, but this has left me seething.

Trans friends and strangers: know you are welcomed and celebrated by me and those I love. Cisgender women reading this: we are less safe now, I fear, because of this ruling. I am scared for our future, too.

Everyone who is angry too, please sign petitions. Make art. Make NOISE. Stay away from anything that could line JK Rowling's hateful pockets. If you can, please consider donating to the Good Law Project (https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/fighting-fund-for-trans-rights/).

Worse things shall surely come. Which is why we must stand together.

This is not common sense.

Common sense is:

Not putting your hand on a glowing bulb.

It’s not taking the fire extinguisher out of a room

Because it clashes with your off-white interior.

Not crossing after looking just right,

Or following bear prints into the woods.

There are bears in more than bathrooms.

Common sense is not

Taking the crumbling mountain path because 

Someone else said the smooth one looked

More dangerous 

It's not:

Adding tomatoes to fruit salads or

Avoiding education

Mistrusting everyone

Who handles in nuance you

Do not understand.

Bears do not attack only in bathrooms.

Common sense is

Taking an umbrella when it might rain.

Locking my doors at night.

Calling a friend if I'm walking in the dark.

Moving only where the lamp light lives.

Or wearing the wrist strap when using a Wii remote.

Common sense is knowing that 

Even common sense doesn't keep me safe.

Common sense is recognising that:

Generally, bears don't tend to attack the majority of their victims in bathrooms.

My common sense in

The world we live now is

Kindness

The capacity to see

The human soul in another 

Human soul

Who is struggling.

Not making policies out of molehill rarities

It's not pointing at a scapegoat

And screaming you see claws.

The most terrifying bears I know 

Are not the ones who prowl in 

Suppositions.

I 

don't 

need 

metaphorical bears

To make me scared at night.

Your ‘Common sense’ is not

My safety

It's not your safety

It's not the safety of anyone

Who knows anything

About any thing outside of those

White palace walls.

This is NOT common sense.

You cannot command bears out of bathrooms.

They will not listen to law.

Bears do not have to pretend 

Or go through the long process of

Gender transition

to force their way into

Bathrooms

Houses

The space between my legs

And all the other places my fears go to thrive.

Your common sense does not keep me safe.

It just pisses me off

That language and humans

Are as frightening to you

As the bears are to me.

With all my love, warmth, stars, and support to all those made to suffer for the truth in their hearts and souls,

Char xxx

The world is so much better with you in it x