of course! This is what I was reading after watching Matt Walsh’s witness testimony in the California assembly before the vote on the anti-trans sports bill … sometimes I spiral and it helps me to remind myself that there is empirical evidence on these topics, and the anti-trans narrative relies on lies, cherry picking, and getting audiences to come to speculative conclusions based on leading questions. They present their side as “evidence based” and “basic biology” - and the problem is that I have been raised the same way as a lot of these anti-trans advocates, I really understand their resistance to accepting trans identities, and what I have found is that even when I gather all the facts and scientific evidence (more than most people will likely read or parse for themselves), I still struggle for that knowledge to seep down into my unconscious and reform my persistent but outdated beliefs, like a habit that keeps expressing itself despite conscious efforts to undo the habit.

So I find myself doing a lot of journaling and revisiting the evidence, hoping it will actually cure me of my transphobia.