Blake Owen Middleton, Jr.
Transgender teen
Educating Others on Queer Identity
Posted: 01/24/2012 1:00 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-owen-middleton-jr/queer-identity_b_1219706.htmlThe video below is about bullying. It's not a very recent video, but one that I want to put out there nonetheless because I think it is an important subject. I was bullied badly in school because I was so different, and I don't think a lot of the teachers or parents of the kids in my school had an idea of just how bad it was. There are a lot of schools worse than mine, and despite great efforts, bullying still happens, which is why kids need to be taught early on that it's not OK.
I'm a transgender male trying to spread education about queer-identified people. I've made an effort to inform myself not just about people from the transgender community but about other queer-identified people. Not many gay people understand transgender people, and vice versa. The same goes for other members of the queer community. And there are so many people in the world who don't understand anything about queer-identified people. I'm not out to educate the entire world, because I don't think that's possible, for various reasons, one being that not everyone is going to be willing to listen to my message. But if I can help some people understand the things that they don't, I think I've made a difference.
