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[u/_just_is_]

I’m Isabelle (i make all the JUSTIS comics). I’m a 21 year old trans woman and I have illustrated a small part of my story in this comic. This is a super personal but important issue to me and I’m absolutely willing to answer any [respectful] questions you may have.

The law discussed in this comic prohibited trans young people (in Australia) under 16 from accessing hormone replacement therapy, and required those over 16 but under 18 to acquire a court order before gaining access. It was abolished in 2017. In time for me to start hormones without having to go through a male puberty.

In the years after this law was changed, the world seemed to be becoming a better, safer place for trans kids. But in the past few years that has drastically shifted. Many people in major countries like the USA and UK have been actively pushing against the rights of trans kids to access the same treatments that I was fighting for in my teens.

Whatever your feelings about this issue, it remains a fact that these treatments save lives.

Protect Trans Kids.

[u/Jakitron_1999 → u/_just_is_]

Conservatives are often called "reactionary" because they react to what happens in the world rather than acting from their own interests. Progress angers them, but when good people unite and fight past them, progress will happen anyway, and they'll be left in the dustbin of history with those who fought universal suffrage and racial integration. But if progressives are discouraged by the reactionary push, see this swell as larger and more popular than it really is, then more progress is undone. Gay marriage, no-fault divorce, racial integration. Trans rights are human rights and we need to actively advocate for them constantly now to protect them from these attacks, but I believe that we are correct and we will win

[u/ThePhysicistIsIn → u/Jakitron_1999]

reactionary actually has a much older meaning.

During the French Revolution, those who were against the revolution - who wanted the king and the noble privilege and the old régime to return. They joined the "reaction" to the revolution. Thus "reactionaries".

If conservatives want things not to change, reactionaries want to bring them back to how they were. The term still makes sense today. It often means far-right wing.