While what Walrein said was clearly meant to be a joke and attacking it isn't terribly productive, there are some points about SSM legalization drawing out more of a backlash. It's pushed some Republican candidates who were otherwise quietly hostile into being openly homophobic and trying to stir the base that way (looking at you, Scott Walker). It also means that some candidates are really playing up their homophobia and (in Huckabee's case) transphobia to get more voters. If one of them wins the primary with that strategy and somehow wins the general, things could get a lot worse before they get better. Additionally more states are seriously considering boosted RFRAs that would hurt transpeople and others with no intention of marrying anyone is bad for a fairly large swath of the community. On the other hand, the advocacy of the liberal media is shifting towards trans* issues and equal protection. While the former is its own battle that could be seriously risked by a loss of funds and attention to LGBTQ+ issues, the latter is going to be increasingly difficult to defend the status quo on, even if it would just be largely symbolic in practice.
Furthermore the reality of marriage is going to give more evangelicals and demagogues an ability to point at something concrete and scream that they are being oppressed and victimized as the fallout of stories from Oregon and Colorado show. While I'm not defending the Right in any way, they will use those stories and for those not aware of why they exist (necessity of actually enforcing anti-discrimination codes where present) it does make it seem like the victimization roles have been reversed, even if the victims are bailed out by Go Fund Me more often than not. Particularly I could see the South and other predominantly evangelical regions getting even more hostile to LGBTQ+ people for a little while before cooling back down into the South's usual semi-legal, entrenched disdain for people who couldn't vote at the nation's founding.
But, uh, in personal news I made a post back in April where I mentioned figuring out I was genderfluid. Yeah, well, I started really paying attention to that and searching for answers and things in the past and I'm virtually certain that genderfluid is a technically accurate term. But I'm somewhere between agender or female ~90% of the time so I've decided to basically just go with the transgender label and its implications for now. Not sure what to do about it. On one hand, after figuring it out my limited attempts at presenting female in private have made me much happier than almost anything else in recent years. On the other, I happen to go to school in South Carolina. You know, the state that just lowered the Confederate Flag from the statehouse today, denies racial disparities in government policy when the current governor won with ~75% of the white vote and ~5% of the minority vote, and is actually considering a bill banning public universities from having unisex bathrooms just so... I don't know? So people who decide to enter a unisex, single-stall bathroom on their own volition aren't raped by a transperson using the bathroom when they get in? This is to say nothing of the Southern Baptist majority in the state that would make coming our or transitioning very risky from almost every angle.
I told my parents about it and they were open to it in theory if unsupportive of any talk of acting on it. For now I plan on continuing vocal practice, growing out my hair, and figuring out how to apply makeup well enough that, if I wanted to come out in about a year's time or so I could be maybe passable enough to not get killed. I'm not boxing myself into any timelines or doing anything that would seriously risk outing me before I want it to happen, but even little steps forward so far have been just about the only thing since the onset of puberty that have managed to temporarily stave off depression.
Also still asexual but romantic feelings have become a tad more... complicated? I've heard that happens for a lot of transpeople, and non-binary people in particular, when they accept their identity but I don't really want to put a label on it right now. I'll like who I like and I see no reason I need a word for that. So, yeah, tad hypocritical there. I like my gender identity label since it's actually led to a lot of self-discovery and progress and provides a rough outline of what I want to do but don't see the point in a romantic orientation one.