Jill:
Isn’t it ironic that back in 2017 a Black lesbian Special Agent saved the lives of Republican members of congress when they were attacked during a baseball practice in Alexandria, VA. Afterwards, those members continued their anti-LGBT BS as well as their lack of support for effective gun legislation in order to try to prevent mass shootings.
Once again, dogma over reason…
And it continues on a daily basis. Someone needs to ask these people, “why?” How can equal rights and acceptance harm you and what do you have to gain, or lose, by being “anti”?
Red Meat to The Faithful…
What to do to fight against the anti-LBGTQ BS???? Well, as I live in southern California, and have experienced only remarkable tolerance and acceptance around here since I commenced my transition, the issue is less than pressing from a purely personal standpoint. But I certainly can grasp the anxiety that other, less fortunately situated folks feel. So I give $$$ to organizations fighting our fight. And I damn sure never donate to or vote for any political creature who trails an "R-[somewhere]" description after his/her name! I don't even care to hear what their personal stance on LBGTQ matters might be - it doesn't matter in the least, since they adhere to a party that has gone almost completely toxic. I will not enable them.
Me too Dana!!! Marg
Back when there was all the media coverage over the political/legal/public fight over the Affordable Care Act - which those in opposition called it "Obamacare" (what was supposed to be a negative label to generate support against the ACA, has now become THE way to refer to the ACA!), there were some College Students to went to go interview those people, and many of them were vehemently against "that Obamacare" - but when the ACA was mentioned, many of them liked the Affordable Care Act, they just hated "Obamacare"!
So to these people: Obamacare = hate it - ACA = It's not so bad, maybe even good. NOT realizing that their hated "Obamacare" WAS the Affordable Care Act that they actually liked!
They make NO SENSE to me!
This has been a quandary for me - "To be or not to be... a Trans Activist".
Activist throughout history have had all manner of ill-will, violence and never experienced ANY peace for the rest of their lives! Activists are constantly targeted and have every manner of legal (and illegal) troubles that they have to live through.
But WHO are the ones that get the results? The ones who organize, publicly march, protest, make loud public speeches - the one's who put their faces in front of cameras, their voices through microphones and megaphones, and keep getting into "good trouble" to get their point across. Sometimes you have to "get in the face" of this hatred and 'force' them to notice you - the proverbial "banging one's head against the wall" comes to mind! Repetition after many hundreds of hours and days may start to crack that shell of ignorance in these anti-Trans people - or those that may not be "anti-Trans" but bury their heads in the sand so they don't hear about it. We also have to battle those that just don't want to hear about us, don't want to be uncomfortable or "get involved" even passively, so they want us (Transgender people) to "just go away", thus tuning us (and our supporters) out, and allowing the extremists to win.
There's a part of me who wants to scream from the highest mountain against all this crap going on, but there's also the main part of me who doesn't want to "rock the boat" - who just wants to live a normal, quiet, peaceful life. I am an admitted introvert and am probably in the "Social Anxiety Spectrum" - I do NOT like to draw attention to myself in ANY way. Whether I was living as a male or trying to live my life as female, I just want to be left alone - in peace.
BUT... how do we get people on our side? By letting all those people know who real transgender people are. Let the average person know that they know a Trans-person. I believe that was one of the ways that Harvey Milk got hetero-citizens to back him and the gay community to stop anti-gay legislation: he got his fellow gays to contact their family, friends, employers, etc. and let them know that they were gay - and he got LOUD, got public, and ran for public office.
So, is the entire Trans community all over the United States and beyond, going to stand up and declare "I am here, and I'm Trans"? From my own personal experience, many of the transgender folks I've met through my peer support group just want to be treated like any other female (or male for Trans-males) and do NOT want to stand out as Transgender. They want everyone to think of them as "just another woman" or "just another man", and NOT as a Trans-woman or Trans-man. Go to a job, go to the store, go to an entertainment venue, go to a FAMILY GATHERING - just as the gender they transitioned to.
So, off of my long-winded, rambling, lack-of-proper-sleep-and-nutrition post here, what do others suggest we do to get the point across to family, friends, and the general populous that we're no threat to them, their children or to ourselves - that is, if we're treated with respect, dignity, and are given the same freedoms as every other American? Because when your rejected by your family, friends, colleagues, community and fellow citizens, it doesn't promote a "healthy life", both physically and especially mentally, for those that have be ostracized (10-time more likely to have a trans-suicide when there's no support from blood-related family)
Okay, I need to get some sleep!! Goodnight!
I um hear the hate, n when I walk the street as missy, I'm still 5 10 but as missy I'm alert n afraid of oncoming attacks by those who dont know me or care, they just know they want to hurt me n those like me for fun, because we're different. jerks
this reminds me of 1942 Germany when a psycho with a funny mustache exterminated 6 million Jewish people, some Christians, handicapped persons n those thought to be homosexual..so that he could keep Germany pure...what à tragic joke. and yet the lesson is the same we don't like you because, so we can take away your medical care or do this and that to you, just because.
what they forget is we came to this country hundreds of years ago to avoid a government run by the church, to avoid prosecution fir speaking your mind, to avoid prosecution for simply being different. and now...
the new legislations if anyone wouldc shut up long enough to listen, probably violate the constitution in so many ways its not funny. yet why ruin a good witch hunt with law or facts
sad. makes you want to move n happy we don't live forever. I recall the scene from the Godfather where Tom hagen talks to frankie pantagalene after he tried to have Don Michael Corleon killed, we was like the Roman empire..we was...somewhere we have sadly forgotten what we fought n died for only to become the monster we tried to escape.
I hope they challenge these laws in court as violating the constitution, as void for vagueness, as contradicting other federal n state laws, as simply wrong n inhumane
man is the only creature that kills fir sport..
sad. sorry
