Bringing up the trans bodies

Rachel Saunders
6 min readJun 14, 2024
Photo by T Munive: https://www.pexels.com/photo/selective-focus-photography-of-woman-lying-on-flowers-3404200/

I am tired. Tired of reading about trans bodies. Tired of reading about trans suicides. Tired of feeling like three steps forward is simply a matter of the rest of society taking two steps back and leaving trans people and their advocates exposed. Rights, at least the version of rights I advocate for, are not a matter of slicing a cake into smaller slices, they are about continually baking cake until everyone can have their fair share…

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