To all my trans brothers and sisters. I stand with you. I support you.

[KPN]

7. Not trans here, but I have a sister who is. She

voted for Trump and supports everything his administration is doing, thinks he is by far the best President the country has ever had, etc. She is also evangelical Christian and has been for probably 40 years — despite being banished from the church she attended for years before actually becoming herself in her mid 60s five years ago or so. I and my 7 other siblings supported her fully in doing so.

She is not the first trans that I have personally known, but the first that I had been so intimately familiar with for so many years. So while I understood and had compassion around the cruel social realities of being trans and have therefore been empathetic and accepting, it wasn’t until learning from my sister that I could really understand — and even with that intimate knowledge and relationship, I’m sure I never can fully.

But there is another thing that I absolutely will never understand … to any degree or at any level. How in the fuck can my trans sister be such a total Trump supporter? I am absolutely flabbergasted by this. How does this happen?