Trans Rights Are Human Rights

An interviewer asked Arthur about his dress, and if an award’s ceremony was the correct place to make a ‘political’ statement.

Arthur took a deep breath before answering, “There’s nothing political about my dress. Trans people exist. The world needs to accept that. I thought things were getting better; I thought the world was getting better. But then we regressed so much, so rapidly. And, weirdly, I thought the Great Shift would’ve made people more understanding. Somehow it’s only made people more hateful.

“Yet I wonder how much people really know about their new bodies, or even how much they knew about their old ones. I was trans before the Shift, but I never could’ve afforded the surgery to make my body match who I was on the inside. And then Great Shift swapped me into a celebrity, the body of my dreams. For me, it worked out. But for so many people it didn’t. There are more people than ever who have a body that doesn’t match who they are on the inside; who should be allowed to change that. And yet there’s a movement that wants to force people to conform to the genders they got as a result of the Shift. Trans people were marginalized before the Shift, and are still marginalized now. Trans rights are human rights. That’s not a political statement; that’s just a basic fact of humanity. It was before the Great Shift, and it still is after the fact.”