So, I'm going to clarify via a couple of bullet points:
Since you didn't quoted anyone specific, i'd clarify that I am curious about the mentioned change in the last few months, labled as countrywide slide and alluded to widespread changes in univesrties (and education) system which would have wider implications. I don't belive anyone have questioned your expirences or the hardship of trans people in society as whole
Otherwise, this thread is usually more active, I hopped that by now someone with applicable experience in what you are going through would offer some advice. Best I can offer is an apology if the terminology ruckus have made you feel uncomfortable and in need to defend/educate about your position, I know this can get daunting over time.
Erin Reed's coverage is imperfect, but she has a
fairly comprehensive newsletter tracking legislative changes. There are now four states with legislation medically detransitioning adults and at least one state (Florida) with a criminal bathroom law. At the beginning of the year, there were zero.
How many working mathematicians in the US were openly trans 20 years ago?
How many are you likely to be unaware of, given your pool of known working mathematicians and expected total of known working mathematicians?
The advice that's going around from People Who Know is "just keep your head down and do the minimum right now." The current legislative movement is career-ending.
Yes, twenty years ago there were very, very few transgender mathematicians. The law and our social norms destroyed generation after generation. Ten years ago transition was almost unthinkable for a lot of people. I would know, I was looking up transition resources back then and there was literally almost nothing. "Nonbinary" was not a thing that almost any of the population had a word for. I didn't know any words for what I was; I just said I was "both and neither" and overall, in my experience, folks were unrelentingly cruel about it.
I'm trying to tell you: things were better in the US. They are now bad and getting worse.
Huh, which one? I'm only aware of asexual.
AAA is usually agender, aromantic, asexual.