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"before getting out of your car, do you check everyone's bumper stickers to make sure you're not gonna get attacked or are you cis?"

neither, actually.

no hate to the people who post stuff like this, but also people don't realise how truly vulnerable you are when you're blind, especially when you're otherwise marginalised too.

i can't read bumper stickers from a safe distance.

i can't read their nazi bumper stickers from the same distance they will clock me as trans.

i don't drive, so i often don't have the shield of a vehicle.

so i just have to go somewhere, hope for the best, hope to not get hate crimed.

someone on a trans podcast i listen to talked about how she needed to gtfo from somewhere because someone had a nazi bumper sticker and wore nazi clothing.

only then did it hit me how truly vulnerable i am for not being able to see these things from afar.