Our mental health

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www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/2/26/study-trans-kids-thrive-supportive-families

Imagine that: if you treat us right, we enjoy better mental health.

[Shan]

Feb 28, 2016 2:27:13 GMT 8 @foxglove said:

www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/2/26/study-trans-kids-thrive-supportive-families

Imagine that: if you treat us right, we enjoy better mental health.

They have caused you to become, oh so jaded dear foxy! Not that anyone here will blame you dear.

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Seriously, Shan, this is one I see fairly often--another one that makes me quite angry: this notion that our mental health has nothing to do with the way we're treated. It's because transpeople are naturally unstable. I remember a time on a forum (that was not a trans forum) someone had linked to an article dealing with trans suicide and talking a bit about the pressure that young transpeople face. One reply to that article came from a member who was notoriously homo/transphobic: "Well, I suppose those suicides are society's fault!" She's just read (or not read) an article explaining that yes, they are in fact society's fault and giving the reasons why, but she doesn't see it--because she doesn't want to see it. So it goes.

[Shan]

Feb 28, 2016 3:24:54 GMT 8 @foxglove said:

Seriously, Shan, this is one I see fairly often--another one that makes me quite angry: this notion that our mental health has nothing to do with the way we're treated. It's because transpeople are naturally unstable. I remember a time on a forum (that was not a trans forum) someone had linked to an article dealing with trans suicide and talking a bit about the pressure that young transpeople face. One reply to that article came from a member who was notoriously homo/transphobic: "Well, I suppose those suicides are society's fault!" She's just read (or not read) an article explaining that yes, they are in fact society's fault and giving the reasons why, but she doesn't see it--because she doesn't want to see it. So it goes.

I know hon, and it's most important for us that we don't let their ignorance cause us to become bitter. Our situation here is much akin in many ways to those who want to share the Christian gospel with others, same as with trans-folks sharing the truth with the cis crowd, there are those few who are receptive and then many others who intentionally refuse to hear. It's really just the nature of human beings and their stubborn willfulness to throw up walls and withstand the truth.

[Trinity]

Right now, I am fighting for my own mental health.

There is an old acting axiom.

We become what our environment and given circumstances cause us to react to be.

There is another.

Who we are will create our environment.

That is our choice, is it not? But it will take a lot of courage and stubborn will to refuse to let that which is sweet and beatiful be ruined by outside hate and fear.

I see no difference in a child growing up here.

We are the children. Where are the parents that must protect us from the wolves?

Where are the ones that will save us from this evil thing that has been born, a thing of tradition and false dogma? Based on a web of lies by the father of lies?

Where are they?

They are our children.

Our children have become the parents. Because the parents are like children, there is no one to protect them from the hate, the abuse of the bullies. But all bullies have their day, all hearts are exposed in the light.

Don't lose your light. Let it shine. So you can protect the children.

Us, and ours.

Evil want to kill them, to kill us, it is clear, evil is calling for the genocide of trans.

And good is pushing back and says "no more", "No more hurting our children"

Thank God for one governor that knew it, that sees the rivers of hate and blood. And thank God I am in NY.

Instead of in a dress at Daytona Speedway using a mens gang urinal, because thats what the haters want to do in Florida now.

For every hair that is touched of an innocent trans person, let there be two taken from the heads of those that touch our innocents. Of those that steal life and youth. Of those that put loved ones into psyche units when they break. Of those who rob lives, in the name of good.

Our children must be our parents. Their parents. For the parents no longer act like adults. Nor children.

They are acting like demons of hate.

Feed them to them then, feed them to the demons. I assure you, it will not be well with them.

But for the children, us, it is not ours to look upon this, to be angry, to curse, to be poisoned. It is for us to turn aside, find the need of the helping hand, build the love links, restore the hurting, touch and be touched, love unconditionally as the wolves howl outside the door. For the wolves never win, ever. For a season, perhaps, but not for ever.

Innocent children win forever. So let nobody take it from you. Love and be loved. Live the life that is your right to live. Not someone elses life. And if we have to pee, then let us pee together. In large numbers, until the names on the bathrooms are meaningless, laughable, for it will no longer be possible to see who is male, who is female, as the women pee in the mens rooms, and the men pee in the womens, for that is now the law in these places.

No do not sacrifice your hard won mental health for a wolf saying they are a sheep. Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. There is a reason for that command. It is the only way to win. Innocent, as children.

Trinity

[Taka]

looks like you've turned completely girl,little fairy.
they do habe a tendency to go to the toilet together. a habit i could never manage to understand.

[Trinity]

Feb 28, 2016 7:17:42 GMT 8 Taka said:

looks like you've turned completely girl,little fairy.
they do habe a tendency to go to the toilet together. a habit i could never manage to understand.

In some ways yes love.

But the warrior is always there...the father, the acton guy, all that.  But not physically, not anymore, just outwardly sometimes, with a mischievous twinkle in my eye, knowing I am she.

I blended so much now, I just became me.  Its amusing now that it is real, and free.

*smiles that funny smile, with the soft loving eyes, at the eagle who found h'er hiding in the thicket after losing her little mask..  it is still there, not forgotten, but cherished, with its little flowers the eagle put there- a moment i will never ever forget*

Trinity