When Rights Become a Transaction, Humanity is Lost

In 2025, the world is watching as history unfolds. It’s easy to believe that progress is a straight line, that once we move forward, we never go back. But today, as a transgender woman, I feel the ground shifting beneath me.

I see a future where my rights—our rights—are debated not as a matter of dignity, fairness, or justice, but as a transaction. A bar…