Hi. I am a trans person in 2019. I spent a lot of time and effort helping out with grassroots community organizing alongside wealthier cis people for free, wound up homeless twice, lost housing once to a gentrifying landlord, ate dumpster-dived groceries, got boomers up my ass calling me lazy and a spendthrift when I was saving every penny from my shit gig economy job, then moved into tech because I needed to be in a field that would actually give me money to live.
In 2015 and 2016, I was doing research studies on trauma to make money. I was traumatizing myself for science, because I was so broke. And that's not even rare for us, is it? We do these studies telling cis people about how they've fucked us over, because they don't listen otherwise. I feel so mad sometimes.