It’s Been A Rough Few Years for the Pandemic Trans

An unprecedented number of trans people came out during lockdown. Then the GOP declared war on us all.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
5 min readMar 7

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A guy (probably not Marshall Mathers, but very similar-looking) hides inside with his hands over his face, as we all do.
“Dear Diary: Lockdown ended two years ago. Still have not gone outside. Unrelated note: Am I a photo of Eminem?” Photo by christopher lemercier on Unsplash

On my last normal day, I gave a reading in Manhattan. I had taken a train down into the city, and I was on a line-up with a few people, comedians and TV writers and authors. I remember hanging around…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.