Shortly after the emergence of the 2019 Coronavirus, Arundhati Roy asserted that pandemics operate as portals into new worlds, as gateways from the current world into the next one. This article aims to parse out what world COVID-19 has thrust us into, drawing an analogous relationship between “visibly” transsexual and/or transgender individuals “post” the 2020 COVID-19 breakout to gay men “post” the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis. This work further argues that there has been no salient “progress” in the West around transgender identity, transsexualism, nonbinarism, or the like, but instead what Foucault refers to as “the solidification and implantation of an entire sexual mosaic”, one rife with connotations similar to disease and pathogen. Further, I assert that reemerging themes of cleanliness and purging of filth, such as those present following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, has coincided purposefully with the attempted social purging of acceptance themes for individuals that do not align with the gender binary.