With Democrats flipping the governor’s mansion, AG office, four state Supreme Court seats, and the Court of Appeals, the days of an anti-trans Texas have finally come to an end.
I have hope for the first time that I might get to change my birth certificate. I might be able to get bottom surgery without fleeing the state. I might even be able to, dare I wish, piss in peace. Nothing has changed yet, but for the first time I can dream of a better life here.
Congrats to every trans Texan. Y’all can breathe a lot easier and have hope for your future. Sending love from one formerly-Red-state (Arizona, where we also swept every statewide office and are even poised to take the legislature) to another. 🩵🤍🩷
Kudos to the voters who turned up and turned out of office those whose goal was to immiserate a small group of people they did not know who did nobody any harm but just to live their lives as who they are with the same rights as everybody else.
Dear Aleksandra-I discovered your writing this morning and was deeply moved by your extraordinary analysis of the changing political landscape in Texas. I’ve just become a paid subscriber, and I look forward to following your work. Your clarity, intellectual depth, and courage are remarkable.
I wanted to introduce myself and share a little of my story.
I’m Sheila Grace Newsom, a 76-year-old transgender woman, physician, and Jungian therapist who spent most of her life in Texas. I graduated from West Point, served in the Army, and practiced medicine for nearly forty years, primarily in nephrology and critical care.
In August 2025, I left my home in Texas and came to Ajijic, Mexico, seeking political asylum. Next week, I have my final asylum interview with Mexican immigration authorities. It has been an extraordinary journey, involving the relinquishment of much that once defined my life, including the country I served and loved.
Your article brought me considerable hope, particularly for younger transgender Texans who may now have opportunities for freedom and belonging that seemed unimaginable only a short time ago.
My own circumstances are different. Political asylum will likely mean that I cannot return to the United States for several years. But I’ve begun to discover something important here in Mexico: exile need not mean isolation, and diaspora need not mean the end of participation.
I’ve found a remarkable community of people here, and I’m increasingly interested in how those of us living in diaspora can continue contributing to the evolution of consciousness and the struggle for human dignity.
I write about these themes through a Jungian and archetypal lens, exploring otherness, individuation, the feminine, and the freedom to become. At this stage of my life, I’m less interested in another professional accomplishment than in discovering how I might serve as an elder, a witness, and a participant in the emergence of something new.
I would welcome the opportunity to get to know you and perhaps find ways to collaborate or support your work. I believe we are living through a profound historical transition, one that calls not simply for political change but for a deeper transformation in how we understand and encounter one another.
Your generation has an extraordinary opportunity to help shape that future. Those of us who have traveled a longer road have something to offer as well.
Thank you for the hope your writing brought me this morning. I look forward to staying in touch.
It gives me immense pleasure to learn of all the changes in Texas from YOU, my friend! Congratulations to you and to everyone anywhere who these evil Texans have menaced (including me)! Texas may not have fully arrived, but this has unquestionably been a giant leap for transkind! :-D
I depends. A law for "sex change" court orders remains on the books (which is what they used before), but I hope that they'll go for a non-burdensome provider form requirement like those currently used by West Virginia, Alaska, and North Carolina. Of course, self-ID would be ideal, but I don't know if they're willing/have the authority to go that far.
It's a way to amend the requirements without stirring up too much attention. It's what a lot of red states used at the height of pro-trans policies circa 2018/19 (including Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, Wyoming (all of which no longer use them), as well as Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, West Virginia (which still use them)); in a nutshell, they basically eliminate the whole strawman about "fraud" by essentially serving as a statement of corroboration. It's not perfect, but in a state like Texas it might be prudent to do just to avoid the GOP meltdown.
I have hope for the first time that I might get to change my birth certificate. I might be able to get bottom surgery without fleeing the state. I might even be able to, dare I wish, piss in peace. Nothing has changed yet, but for the first time I can dream of a better life here.
hardly. these crackercorn rat-fuckers luv transmisogyny
Wow. Just wow. I'm not from Texas - hell, I'm not even trans - and still I can feel the glow of such good and hopeful news.
Congrats to every trans Texan. Y’all can breathe a lot easier and have hope for your future. Sending love from one formerly-Red-state (Arizona, where we also swept every statewide office and are even poised to take the legislature) to another. 🩵🤍🩷
I am so happy for you in Texas! You've been through so much, you deserve much better. Breathe!
Kudos to the voters who turned up and turned out of office those whose goal was to immiserate a small group of people they did not know who did nobody any harm but just to live their lives as who they are with the same rights as everybody else.
Dear Aleksandra-I discovered your writing this morning and was deeply moved by your extraordinary analysis of the changing political landscape in Texas. I’ve just become a paid subscriber, and I look forward to following your work. Your clarity, intellectual depth, and courage are remarkable.
I wanted to introduce myself and share a little of my story.
I’m Sheila Grace Newsom, a 76-year-old transgender woman, physician, and Jungian therapist who spent most of her life in Texas. I graduated from West Point, served in the Army, and practiced medicine for nearly forty years, primarily in nephrology and critical care.
In August 2025, I left my home in Texas and came to Ajijic, Mexico, seeking political asylum. Next week, I have my final asylum interview with Mexican immigration authorities. It has been an extraordinary journey, involving the relinquishment of much that once defined my life, including the country I served and loved.
Your article brought me considerable hope, particularly for younger transgender Texans who may now have opportunities for freedom and belonging that seemed unimaginable only a short time ago.
My own circumstances are different. Political asylum will likely mean that I cannot return to the United States for several years. But I’ve begun to discover something important here in Mexico: exile need not mean isolation, and diaspora need not mean the end of participation.
I’ve found a remarkable community of people here, and I’m increasingly interested in how those of us living in diaspora can continue contributing to the evolution of consciousness and the struggle for human dignity.
I write about these themes through a Jungian and archetypal lens, exploring otherness, individuation, the feminine, and the freedom to become. At this stage of my life, I’m less interested in another professional accomplishment than in discovering how I might serve as an elder, a witness, and a participant in the emergence of something new.
I would welcome the opportunity to get to know you and perhaps find ways to collaborate or support your work. I believe we are living through a profound historical transition, one that calls not simply for political change but for a deeper transformation in how we understand and encounter one another.
Your generation has an extraordinary opportunity to help shape that future. Those of us who have traveled a longer road have something to offer as well.
Thank you for the hope your writing brought me this morning. I look forward to staying in touch.
With love and blessings,
Sheila Grace Newsom, MD, MA, FACP
Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
It gives me immense pleasure to learn of all the changes in Texas from YOU, my friend! Congratulations to you and to everyone anywhere who these evil Texans have menaced (including me)! Texas may not have fully arrived, but this has unquestionably been a giant leap for transkind! :-D
What are your thoughts on what it might take for the processing of gender marker changes in Texas?
I depends. A law for "sex change" court orders remains on the books (which is what they used before), but I hope that they'll go for a non-burdensome provider form requirement like those currently used by West Virginia, Alaska, and North Carolina. Of course, self-ID would be ideal, but I don't know if they're willing/have the authority to go that far.
Would the non-burdensom form circumvent the law or are you thinking it's just a way to amend it's requirements without stirring up as much attention
It's a way to amend the requirements without stirring up too much attention. It's what a lot of red states used at the height of pro-trans policies circa 2018/19 (including Idaho, Missouri, Ohio, Wyoming (all of which no longer use them), as well as Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, West Virginia (which still use them)); in a nutshell, they basically eliminate the whole strawman about "fraud" by essentially serving as a statement of corroboration. It's not perfect, but in a state like Texas it might be prudent to do just to avoid the GOP meltdown.
well i yeah i did vote blue. but we ain’t gonna be saved by the democrats--even they hate trans girls
I'm a bit confused, I didn't join the Erin Reed live session at any point?
But yes this is absolutely unbelievable!!!