Transness Does Not Mean Death: On the Erasure of Nonbinary People

Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford
5 min readJan 26, 2021

“I don’t want to take up space.” These are the words that I hear so often and so devastatingly by nonbinary people and people outside of the binary within shared trans spaces, and outside of them.

How can you take space from another person if space is abundant? If Blackness is abundant? If transness is abundant? How can you take what is already yours

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