The Weight of America: Transgender People Under Siege
America has truly lost its soul, Kai McKenzie argues. Trans people find themselves under siege.
Over at Crossdreamers Kai McKenzie explores the challenges faced by transgender individuals in America, emphasizing the oppressive attitudes and policies that marginalize them.
Kai McKenzie highlights the stark contrasts between different American regions, from the liberal environment of Berkeley, California, to the conservative setting of 29 Palms and the academic halls of Nashville, Tennessee. Still, America as a whole is now under the thrall of Trump.
McKenzie writes:
‘David Guterson, in his 1993 essay “Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured. The Mall of America,” likened American society to the inside of this monstrous mall, where people move like “sentient corpses” in a landscape that confuses and distorts reality like an “M. C. Escher Drawing,” “outside of time and space . . . a potent dreamscape” with addictive and hallucinatory properties (166, 165, 172).
This well describes Trump’s America, where American propensities of the past, toward pretence and imaginative self-righteousness, are now blatant, unrepentant, and undisguised.’
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