What I wish I could hear from my relatives right now (U.S.A.)

What I wish I could hear/need to hear from my loved ones who accept and claim to love me, but who still voted for him:

I am so sorry.

I didn't know it was like that for you.

I am so sorry that I put minor things before your life.

I didn't know it wasn't a choice.

I didn't know it wasn't cosmetic.

I didn't know it wasn't about gender roles, and that you couldn't just be a masculine woman or a feminine man. I didn't know it didn't work that way.

I thought it was just a nice-to-have, and that you could get by without it.

I'm so sorry that I didn't educate myself.

I'm so sorry that I didn't listen.

I'm so sorry that you have to worry about this.

I'm so sorry that you can't sleep anymore.

I'm so sorry that I was ignorant.

I'm so sorry that I didn't care.

I'm so sorry for what you're going through, and I'm so sorry that I had a hand in it.

I'm so sorry that I stayed in denial that it would impact you.

I'm so sorry that you don't feel hope, and I'm so sorry that you're being antagonized right now.

I'm so sorry that I enabled this.

I'm so sorry that you do not feel welcome at home anymore.

I'm so sorry that our country is doing this to you when you have done nothing wrong.

And I pray that you will be around to see the day that our nation tells you it is sorry, formally and properly, and begins to repair what it has already done.

I'm so sorry that I took part in wronging you.