I was a child pretty recently. I remember being different. I was fortunate to be in an environment where being LGBTQ+ was celebrated. I had gay teachers with photos of their spouses at their desks and gender neutral bathrooms (like the ones in peoples homes) were common so that I never thought about where I had to go to pee. I played girl sports and boy sports. I was a child and I knew I was different and that was something beautiful, something I would grow into understand and love about myself. I saw myself alive in the world as an adult purely because people spoke about my future existence and multitudes it could hold. I could have a wife, be a boy, a girl, have a husband, be both be neither, just be. The legislative attacks on the Trans community, excluding children from sports, encouraging outing, barring LGBTQ+ teachers from talking about their lives is only the beginning. Using Trans people as the scapegoat to rollback body autonomy is sick and by design. Time will show that criminalizing being yourself is dangerous and a massive overreach of our rights. I was a kid, a child, a baby, and I’ve always been me. No one did this to me. Give people a chance to be themselves, stand up for being different. It fucking matters. Being yourself should not be a privilege. I’m Sage im non-binary and I’m a real person who very much exists, I am not a meme or an ideation of the political left. I am a person, I was a child. Happy Pride.