New Year, New Chance to Save Mississippi Trans Youth
advocate.comQueer Mississippians have remained resilient through another year of watching their livelihood be up for debate around the country.
There have been wins on the federal level with the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, a bipartisan measure protecting same sex marriages.
There have been atrocities such as the mass murder at Club Q in Colorado Springs and a steadily increasing number of threats against hospitals providing gender affirming care.
Each year I become more aware of how much queerness is holding celebration and grief in the same breath. Mark Hughes describes in his work Queer Ageing how navigating stressful life events like coming out or witnessing discrimination at a young age creates a ‘crisis competence’ that allows queer people to better tolerate future tragedy.
