I am SICK of the "TG" label. I am NOT "a transgender"!!!!
Why?
I will tell you why!
The term transgender was coined by a crossdresser (transvestite, same thing, translate the latin ffs...) as a slap in the face to those who are transsexual. In otherwords, it is an INSULT to trans.
I will also NOT participate in the "Transgender Day of Remembrance" until 1) it removes the TG label, 2) moves it so that it is NOT in the same time sphere as Remembrance Day (Memorial Day to Yanks) and 3) acknowledges Gender Queer and Gender Fluid.
I am NOT transgender.
I am almost anything BUT. Because TG is an INSULT!!!!
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
"How Dare I"???? WTF????
Went to the doctors today... and whoah... transphobia/ignorance is alive and well in Montreal!!!!
I get in there, go to the reception, give my health card etc, then go sit. Well... this totally ignorant woman says to me "How dare you come to a doctors office like that when there could be children there!" (she had one btw). Whoah... what???? I had on my olive drab slacks, and a red shirt... wtf??? I said as much "what the hell do you mean? I'm not dressed provacative". She said just showing up "as a woman".
Whoah, total ignorance and intolerance.
At least I had not only the staff come to my defence, but some of the patients. One Muslim woman told her "what is wrong? If she has to be herself what concern is it to you?" and one Haitian dude told the woman to get out. The staff politely said "Madam, if you have a problem with her, please do be quiet and keep it to yourself, we will not stand for any form of hatred or discrimination, and if you do not like it we suggest you go elsewhere".
She was shut up pretty damn well. She did the "huff n puff" that those who realize that THEY are the ones wrong do, and have no recourse do. She shut up, but was red faced. She lasted at most 5 minutes and she picked up her kid and left. The poor kid with a look like "what is wrong mom" on her face because she obviously saw no prob and wondered why mommy was being that way.
So how dare I? Easy - I am me, you are you, you don't like me then that is your problem, and you can shut up n leave if you feel that strongly. I will NOT be denied my right to exist, and my right to health care.
The actions of the people in support did bring a tear to me. I was crying a bit and thanking them for being understanding, supportive, etc. As one eldery gentleman said "why wouldn't we be? You have a right to be yourself".
I get in there, go to the reception, give my health card etc, then go sit. Well... this totally ignorant woman says to me "How dare you come to a doctors office like that when there could be children there!" (she had one btw). Whoah... what???? I had on my olive drab slacks, and a red shirt... wtf??? I said as much "what the hell do you mean? I'm not dressed provacative". She said just showing up "as a woman".
Whoah, total ignorance and intolerance.
At least I had not only the staff come to my defence, but some of the patients. One Muslim woman told her "what is wrong? If she has to be herself what concern is it to you?" and one Haitian dude told the woman to get out. The staff politely said "Madam, if you have a problem with her, please do be quiet and keep it to yourself, we will not stand for any form of hatred or discrimination, and if you do not like it we suggest you go elsewhere".
She was shut up pretty damn well. She did the "huff n puff" that those who realize that THEY are the ones wrong do, and have no recourse do. She shut up, but was red faced. She lasted at most 5 minutes and she picked up her kid and left. The poor kid with a look like "what is wrong mom" on her face because she obviously saw no prob and wondered why mommy was being that way.
So how dare I? Easy - I am me, you are you, you don't like me then that is your problem, and you can shut up n leave if you feel that strongly. I will NOT be denied my right to exist, and my right to health care.
The actions of the people in support did bring a tear to me. I was crying a bit and thanking them for being understanding, supportive, etc. As one eldery gentleman said "why wouldn't we be? You have a right to be yourself".
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Sexual Orientation...
This entry but more the comments have encouraged me to write this entry.
Look, it is plain and simple, and if people with a small mind think I am "preaching" to them, then it shows their lack of actual knowledge on the subject of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is ALREADY there in you. It does NOT change.
Whatever you experience and move towards in your life is already *there*. It is just that you simply *have not realized it* until *that* point. It is ingrained in your BRAIN. It has been there since BIRTH.
If you are in transition, for instance, or after, and you find yourself attracted to people you were not before... it has NOT changed... it was ALREADY THERE. It was just simply something that has not "evolved" in you, moved into more focus.
As we go along in life, we will find ourselves "evolving" as a person. Things we either did not realize were there or were there and we denied, start becoming *clearer*.
Just like transition. Most deny it for years, decades even. Then bingo, something happens in our development, our personal evolution, that tells us "it is time - I have to be me".
This is NO DIFFERENT.
Those thinking that they have "changed" their sexual orientation are FOOLING THEMSELVES. It cannot be done. Period. It is simply a person developing, realizing things. That is ALL.
But, if you want to remain a total utter wally, and think sexual orientation can be changed, fine, then join the uber right wing bible thumpers and go along with their "belief" that it can be.
Look, it is plain and simple, and if people with a small mind think I am "preaching" to them, then it shows their lack of actual knowledge on the subject of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is ALREADY there in you. It does NOT change.
Whatever you experience and move towards in your life is already *there*. It is just that you simply *have not realized it* until *that* point. It is ingrained in your BRAIN. It has been there since BIRTH.
If you are in transition, for instance, or after, and you find yourself attracted to people you were not before... it has NOT changed... it was ALREADY THERE. It was just simply something that has not "evolved" in you, moved into more focus.
As we go along in life, we will find ourselves "evolving" as a person. Things we either did not realize were there or were there and we denied, start becoming *clearer*.
Just like transition. Most deny it for years, decades even. Then bingo, something happens in our development, our personal evolution, that tells us "it is time - I have to be me".
This is NO DIFFERENT.
Those thinking that they have "changed" their sexual orientation are FOOLING THEMSELVES. It cannot be done. Period. It is simply a person developing, realizing things. That is ALL.
But, if you want to remain a total utter wally, and think sexual orientation can be changed, fine, then join the uber right wing bible thumpers and go along with their "belief" that it can be.
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