This Pride Month, I want to amplify trans community to celebrate the strength of our solidarity in a time of rising hatred. This hatred is not only embodied the Trump-style right-wing politics, but also by the global trend of separatist ideologies that try to divide us, positioning LGB and women’s rights against trans existence, and fragmenting the whole queer community.  

 

We’ve also witnessed how governments, banks, and fossil fuel and mining corporations have become complicit in hijacking our identities and histories, using them to justify colonialism in Palestine, Congo, and Sudan; against First Nations, migrants, and refugees.

 

An imperial regime wages war and aggravates climate injustice by dropping bombs and poisoning the clean water. A xenophobic nation that marginalises migrant and refugees is the ableist society that divides people into different classes and forces disabled people to fit a single, violent norm.

 

We live with different identities, but we are all struggling in the same world.

 

I remember the first activity I participated in after coming to Canada — it was a trans rally in 2022. I had just arrived from China, where activism is illegal, so it was my first time experiencing freedom. I appreciate the freedom and have continued to show up, whether as a public speaker or working behind the scenes.

 

Now, I’m watching the government in my home country criminalise queer writers for writing BL novels, while the Hong Kong democracy I’ve been advocating for years is being eroded again, as one of its last pro-democracy parties disbands under political pressure. And here, we’re all facing Bill C-5 in Canada and ICE in the US. Our freedom is under threat, so I’m here again — to call out the violence.

 

Pride has always been resistance against injustice. It’s not a tool to justify pinkwashing. My queerness is always tied with my identity as disabled, diaspora, and dissident. This intersection motivates me to stand in solidarity with justice and liberation for ALL.

 

When an era forces us to deny our existence, we become the generation that stops injustice through resistance. We are the stonewall rebellion of our time.

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June, 2025