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Welcome back to It Could Happen Here, the podcast about things happening that are bad and occasionally good, but all have to do with the fact that we're living in a society whose norms are crumbling as the environment.

Also crumbles and political violence and a bunch of other horrible things become more normalized trying to figure out how to not die ideally and occasionally how to thrive.

And to that end, I have a guest today who has been kind of working with the working lately on the how not to die in the face of things getting increasingly violent and aggressive out there.

I want to welcome Jessica Keckler to the program Jessica. How are you doing today?

Going great.

So Jessica, you know, we are as listeners to the show and observers of just basic reality in the outside are aware we're kind of going under a or living through a period of like panic and concerted aggressive attack on the rights and ability to exist of transgender people that's.

Has it like has never not been a problem as long as there's been you know western civilization but has increasingly been a problem the last year or so.

Yeah, it's it's really it's really wild because when you take estrogen your my start taking estrogen took like 10 years off of my face as far as age goes, but then this past year I think it's back by.

Now yeah, I mean that makes sense like it's it's stressful as hell out there. There has been a surge in violence not just against trans people obviously we've talked about in other episodes.

There's been a surge in violence against Asian Americans against LGBT Americans, but transgender people are much more likely than almost any other group in the United States to be attacked.

And that has been increasing reality for a lot of people and you are one of a number of folks in that position who have been increasingly talking or who have found yourselves thinking about the necessity and value of being armed in order to defend yourself from that.

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