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Turku Pride: Looking to the Future

2025-07-01

I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text. The statement may also be read in Finnish and Klingon.

Despite all the bad things happening in the world today, when I look into the future, I see hope.

I see a future where legal gender affirms our identities and includes those beyond the binary.

I see a future where hormone replacement therapy requires only a single procedure, and trans people are no longer dependent on prescribed hormones.

I see a future where pride flags fly every year from public buildings not only in all cities in Finland, but also in Kyiv, Budapest and Moscow.

I see a future where we are everywhere and the whole world is open to us.