“The political affiliation became obvious, but I’d already had feelings for him.”

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“For the folks who say it’s a betrayal to my community because I fell in love with someone with different politics, I mean, I get it. I get it, especially now, and we aren’t dating now, and I think with this current administration, lines certainly have to be drawn, because we’re fighting for our lives in a different way than we were five years ago,” she said. (It’s worth noting that the Trump administration was also the administration in power during the height of the pandemic.)

“We really didn't talk trans stuff. And literally, last year, as the election was approaching, I was like, ‘[Trump's] going to take away gender affirming care for children and adults,’” she continued. “He was shocked. He had no idea. He was like, ‘I hope it doesn't happen.’ I was like, ‘Sweetie, it's going to happen.’ He hadn't read Project 2025. He was a very low-information voter. For most of the relationship, I didn’t talk trans anything. He had never dated a trans woman before me, and I didn’t want to bring trans stuff home. I wanted to just have fun, there’s enough trans political stuff in my life.”