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Post by kdkorz10211 on Nov 27, 2015 8:20:53 GMT 8
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it. In honor of the holiday, I wanted to ask you what you are grateful for about being trans? For me, I'm grateful to have found a true sense of self apart from what society tried to make me into. I'm grateful for the ultimate freedom that comes with being nonbinary. I'm even grateful to be a part of a marginalized group, as it really helps sort out which acquaintances are worth having as friends. I'm grateful for being woke to the tyranny of the gender binary and the ridiculousness of its demands.
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Post by Trinity on Nov 27, 2015 10:57:37 GMT 8
I am greatful for the incredible people i have met that are so brave, so wild, so true and so scared....
Greatful that by being different i know i am no better or worse than anyone else.
Greatful to feel and to be free.
And greatful that i get to be me. All of me, sh'e, he, they....and all physically my dream of being she.
Greatful for the friends i love, and the wife i love, and this forum family i also love.
Id rather be trans than anything else. It is precious to me. I mean that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 1:16:45 GMT 8
One thing I've been thinking about a lot lately is the way cisgender people dismiss us as "a minority". Because there are so few of us, they shouldn't have to worry about us. As one fellow put it recently (with disgust) certain politicians were trying to gain popularity by "pandering to a minority".
I find this attitude quite shocking actually--how easily, how heartlessly some people dismiss human lives as unimportant. It seems that if you're part of a great majority, you get so used to sheer numbers, that you don't see one or two or a few--or in some cases, even a few million--as significant. There are so many lives out there, a few losses aren't going to matter. They stop seeing people as people. They can no longer see a human heart or human dreams or fears or feelings or hopes.
Whereas I, because I'm part of such a small minority, I can see something precious in each life. I look within myself, and when I feel my sadness, hurt, loneliness, sometimes my joys and little victories, I know that what is alive in my heart is alive in every heart. Life is such a simple thing, and no matter where you see it, it is precious. It is a sin to waste or destroy or corrupt it. It is a sin to treat certain lives as disposable on the sole grounds that there aren't many of them.
And after all, if a member of the majority finds it so easy to dismiss the lives of a minority, he has no defence if the majority decides his life can be dismissed. He in himself is only one, and if one elsewhere is disposable, one on his turf is also disposable. Either life is precious or it is not. If you yourself want to be seen as valuable, you must see others as valuable.
It is this sort of thing that being trans has taught me. I think that being trans has made me a better person--and believe me, that is a great gift, because when I started out, I had a long way to go.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 1:58:50 GMT 8
I am grateful for everyone here. I am grateful to be alive today and writing this.
@ Foxglove. That was probably me. If so I didn't mean to disgust you but in the US, the political system disgusts me. I mean Obama was all for marriage being one man and one woman. Same with Hillary until the gay marriage movement gained more and more support. Then they changed their stance. Both lusts for political power. I haven't changed my stance though. I am against state sanctioned marriage. Pay for a marriage license, pay for someone to plan the wedding. Pay for the ordained minister to perform the ceremony and then when you decide that you are one of the 50 percent that want to get divorced, pay a lawyer and court costs to make the divorce final. Love is love. Intertwining and dedicating your life with someone else regardless of sexual orientation or gender orientation should not be up to an elected official or officials.
I'm truly sorry if I offended you foxglove or anyone else. But common law marriage should be between everyone. In other words after sharing lives for such an amount of time then you are common law married. I still wonder if this applies in the states though. Hell common law marriages seem to lasts longer than State Sanctioned marriages here in the US.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 2:11:27 GMT 8
Hi, Jamie! Sorry, but I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I wasn't talking about same-sex marriage or flip-flopping politicians or anything like that. One thing I've been thinking about a lot lately is the way cisgender people dismiss us as "a minority". Because there are so few of us, they shouldn't have to worry about us. As one fellow put it recently (with disgust) certain politicians were trying to gain popularity by "pandering to a minority". No, I was talking about cisgender people who oppose trans rights on the grounds that we're a small minority and hence unimportant. That's all I was talking about. So, no, my remarks weren't addressed to you--unless you're a cisgender person opposed to trans rights--and whatever you said earlier, I can't remember, but it doesn't matter because I don't remember ever having taken offence at anything you've said. So in other words, no foul, no harm here. You cool, baby!
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