Please try to have some empathy for those who have difficulty accepting everything will be okay after this election. As a 65-year-old white woman on Social Security things might be “OK” for me. Try to understand why some people are scared.

Female friends of child bearing age may soon be denied safe and legal abortions. Donald Trump suggested there should be punishment for the women who elect to have an abortion. I understand your faith believes this is wrong, but in America, we have a separation of church and state. You don’t have the right to deny women the right to make their own choices. It is your right to speak out against abortions, just not to legislate them.

What about people who will lose insurance coverage when Obamacare is repealed? He says he will give people something better. Millions now have coverage for their pre-existing illnesses. Women aren’t charged more just because they have more working parts. The only thing he needs to fix is the price. How exactly will that work?

Women in the military now must call this man their Commander in Chief. He said not getting an STD in the 1970s was his Vietnam. This is the same man who thinks sexual assault is to be expected when “the geniuses” allowed women into the military.

Our children and family members who are LGBTQ... do you think they feel safe? The President-elect wants to deny same-sex couples the equal rights guaranteed to every citizen in this country. Again, your religion does not figure into this. It is simply about equal rights. His party wants to legalize discrimination and allow businesses to deny services or products based on the person’s sexual orientation and whom they love. His appointments to the Supreme Court can undo much of the progress we have made in this country.

To my black friends: I get it. America just elected a man who was endorsed by the KKK. Yes, he did disavow them, but it took quite awhile for him to do so. Hispanics have to watch a man take the oath of office who painted them as a group of rapists and murderers. The irony of hearing him speak the words of a sexual predator and then stand accused of assaulting multiple women would indeed be a bitter pill to swallow. You can’t call them liars unless you think the women accusing Clinton or Cosby are also lying. No child should live in fear that his or her family will be torn apart because the new president doesn’t believe in a path to citizenship for people who have become contributing members of their communities.

Thoughts of rounding them up by deportation squads horrifies me. Don’t fool yourselves and say it won’t happen. Remember, we rounded up Japanese-American citizens and placed them in concentration camps. To my Jewish friends and family: I understand your fear. Chants of “Jew-S-A” being hurled at the media smacked a little too much of Nazi Germany for my comfort zone. Muslim friends, even those who were born here, now fear having their allegiance questioned. This elected man wants Muslims to carry papers identifying them as loyal Americans. Refer back to the Nazi Germany comment please.

How are children who are bullied every day supposed to feel safe and think the President-elect will have their back when they have heard him demean his fellow candidates and call them names? When they have seen him mock a disabled reporter? Heard him rate women by their chest size?

Please stop telling people it will be “OK.” Some have some very real fears and deserve our attention. The difference between elections past and now is that Trump said some horrible things during this campaign. He has made promises or comments about every group I have mentioned.

I have accepted the election results and I accept this man as my president. Unlike Rush Limbaugh wanting to see Obama fail, I sincerely want this man to do well and make us a stronger, better country as I hope that for every president. I hope his words during the campaign were nothing more than bluster and a way to appeal to the masses. I want every person in this country to feel safe and know the government isn’t out to hurt them. Because like it or not, Hillary was right... We are stronger together.