Sunday, March 11, 2012
Dear 15 Year Old Me - Letters of Hope for LGBT Teens
Posted by Kelli Anne Busey at 4:59 AM
http://planetransgender.blogspot.com/2012/03/dear-15-year-old-me-letters-of-hope-for.htmlDear 15 year old me,
I know there was no way for you to escape the beatings administered to make you manly. Dear 15 year old me, but step away from your self for a second and realize that wasn't love. Step away and know that contrary to what you were told, impossible as it may seem, believe in your feminine self with your heart on your sleeve, believe. Just believe.
Kelli Anne Busey, transgender woman, age 53
A friend is Introducing a novel concept to give hope to our LGBT youth and I would love to share it with you.....
Welcome to Dear 15 Year Old Me - Letters of Hope for LGBT Teens
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Monday, 12 March 2012
Dear 15 year old me...
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2012/03/dear-15-year-old-me.htmlFrom Dear 15 year old me - how you can help.
If you are a LGBT adult, write a letter to yourself, but write it to the person you were when you were 15 years old. If you could go back to the kid you were then, what would you say? What advice would you give for surviving this time?
Dear 15 year old me
I can do nothing for you, the 15 yr old girl that I was, silently sobbing in your bedroom. Back when you are, in 1973, I know your parents wouldn't understand. I know from here in 2012 (though you don't, and perhaps that's for the best) that if you let your secret out, the standard treatment in your time is electroshock therapy, sometimes even lobotomy, cutting out pieces of your brain, so best keep quiet.
