I know a lot of you who follow me probably share some of the fears around the myth about "men who dress up as women to hurt women". If I wasn't trans I suspect I would too.

But I ask you to look inside your heart and question what is really happening here https://twitter.com/parislees/status/1305563221538021376

I don't expect people who aren't trans to every truly understand, but all I can tell you is that it's beyond depressing to live day in day out under the threat and memory of violence towards you while simultaneously being told that you are in fact the threat. It's completely sick

Like many trans people I faced violence all through my childhood and teenage years SIMPLY FOR BEING TRANS whilst being told that *I* was a pervert and a threat to others

Are you happy to live in a society that treats people like this?

And if not how are we going to change it?

And it's worth pointing out that as a white woman in the UK I have it better than many others. The average life expectancy for a trans woman of colour in the US is just 35

The insult and injustice of being painted as the threat while this is happening to us is an unbearable evil

Trans people I'm sorry we have to keep seeing this crap I know how upsetting it is particularly if you're having your own problems not to mention worrying about the state of the world. Please know you're not alone and that you're worth so much more than how this society treats us