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What is your passion? What drives you related to trans?

Started by Satinjoy, October 04, 2014, 08:37:20 AM

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Satinjoy

Greetings my dears,

What drives your spirit related to trans?

Is it compassion?

Anger?   Bitterness, politics, a need to make a difference in this world?

Is it ego, or sharing lots of wisdom while fighting the ego?

Is it the good of all trans?

What drives your passions my dear ones, what fuels your fire?

Love?


The answer for me is, all of the above.

But what is yours?

What is the source of your passion?

Nails out and heart open,

Satinjoy
Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the red pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the little blue pills - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes

Sh'e took the little blue ones.
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JulieBlair

#1
I am driven by the amazing creativity of this community.
  By the pathos from the anguish and growth to be found here.
  By the joy of recognition of possibility.
  By the opportunity to make a difference in the life of a brother or sister.
  By the friendship of the worthy and the troubled.
  By the power of community to transcend despair.
  By the glory of human becoming.
  By the humility that comes from being in the presence of wisdom.
  By the freedom to follow my own path without being questioned.
  By the simple fact that I finally belong.
Thank you,
Julie
I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy.  :D
Full Time 18 June 2014
Esprit can be found at http://espritconf.com/
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Mark3

My first thought that went through my head was,
The pain..
I'm driven by the pain within others, the misery, the weakness.
When I am moved and touched by someone emotionally,
and that person or persons in need, shows weakness, sorrow or vulnerability,
and is being harmed by either internal demons, or outside forces, as many here are,
perhaps myself included, I want to come running to they're aid, stand by they're side,
and fight with them and for them.
Thus...
Here I am..
"The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond life and death."
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EchelonHunt

My passion is to learn how to love and to accept myself.
My passion is to help others just as others have helped me in the past.
My passion is to raise awareness of transgender, non-binary and asexuality issues.
My passion is to love and accept others unconditionally where others (perhaps their family) have failed to do so.

I feel their pain, their tears, their cries for help but I also feel their happiness, the elated sense of finally being complete and their tears of joy.
I feel the burning desire to survive, to live, to crawl out of the dark pit to laugh in the face of people who did not believe in them, who wronged them, who told them they did not exist.
I feel the everything and nothing this universe holds.

With that, freedom is within my grasp. What was once a burden is now a precious gift I must not take for granted.

My trigender identity and my empath abilities allows me to connect to people on a much deeper level than before.

This is what drives me...
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Shantel

Having to count off by two's and having had a serial number, being told that I am government issue (GI) and having stood in endless lines as if being one of a multitude mindless, faceless clones, all of which seems to continue on in civilian life in varying degrees, I am now thrilled to be completely different than anyone else experiencing the joy of having color in mix and match styles with variation in my life and to be referred to lovingly by my spouse as "her exotic!" I am driven to celebrate these things with others who have broken through to the other side from their formerly drab chrysalis to spread their wings as I have.
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suzifrommd

I would like to see the world be better educated about what it means to be transgender.
I would like to see the trans community speak for ourselves.
I would like better understanding of transgender people translate into policies and culture that is less exclusionary and discriminatory.
I would like to see my trans brothers, sisters, and other siblings who transition after me to have an easier time in a more accepting world.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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stephaniec

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peky

Quote from: Satinjoy on October 04, 2014, 08:37:20 AM
Greetings my dears,

What drives your spirit related to trans?

Is it compassion?

Anger?   Bitterness, politics, a need to make a difference in this world?

Is it ego, or sharing lots of wisdom while fighting the ego?

Is it the good of all trans?

What drives your passions my dear ones, what fuels your fire?

Love?


The answer for me is, all of the above.

But what is yours?

What is the source of your passion?

Nails out and heart open,

Satinjoy

It is the insatiable thirst for knowledge, knowledge for the defense of the Empire, that is the passion that fuels the fire on my belly
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Taka

Quote from: stephaniec on October 04, 2014, 01:12:14 PM
freedom

and to break down the system and recreate it in a shape that better fits humanity.

equal rights as well. make them a part of the new system.
create a system that does not discriminate when people are in need.

i'd rather give free help to those who can't afford it, and let the rich pay more out of their own pocket.

it's just plain weird that only those rich enough can get am insurance that saves them money.
don't they already have enough to afford help?

i'll keep speaking my mind until enough people listen. and when we are enough who say yhe same on one point or another, those will be changed.

but nothing will happen if nobody speeks up about it.
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ativan

Very simply, equality for all things, is a passion.
With equality, the opportunity for knowledge becomes something that you get back what you put into it.
It is, even without equailty, it is a simple thing to do, to educate oneself properly if you put into it what you expect out of it.
With true equality, it costs nothing. Inequality raises the price, not the quality or even the quantity.

With equality there is no need to defend imaginary boundaries, such as the ones you only see on a map.
To defend a piece of dirt is neither noble, nor is it even wise to do.
It brings unnecessary death along with it, it isn't defending anything but that.
If you want to play the game, you have to expect to lose once in a while.
Too many lose once when you defend dirt, especially dirt that is not your own, but belongs to those who profit from you defending it.
You lose by default in playing that game. It is a game of chance, and you are only a player being played.
It is a fool who is a pawn in the profiteers game, the one they tell you is noble in playing.
It leaves to many with the fires of hunger and disease inside of them.
The profiteers use that as an excuse to defend with, when it is they who force too high a price to end it.
To defend equality, and not a game...
It is having fine personal qualities, high moral principles, ideals; it is noble what one can do, not for themselves, but for others.

What drives this in relationship to Trans?
Pretty much the same thing, because I am.
Ativan
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Asche

When I read the title of this thread, I was gonna say, sewing my own skirts and dresses and writing trans-related stories, but then I read what you all wrote and my "passion" doesn't seem like much.

I've never been very good at social action or anything, even though I do get very angry at injustice.  I guess what's important to me (and sort of relates to trans-ness), is: being kind and considerate and decent to other people.  Being honest.  Being fair.  You don't have to understand the other person -- often you can't -- but you can make a good-faith effort to treat them with respect.  No matter what they've done.  E.g.: you may think Chelsea Manning deserves to be locked up and the key thrown away (which I don't), but that isn't an excuse to disrespect her humanity by refusing to use the name and the gender she prefers.  That's just petty meanness, of which we have far too much of (at least here in the USA.)  Kind of like "be the change."

Random thought: when I was growing up, "being a d***" (not the term they used) was one way you proved your manhood.  Maybe one of my "trans qualities" (assuming I count as trans) is thinking that's stupid and not wanting anything to do with it or with the people who think it's "cool" to do it.  But it's not so much following some principle (I'm bad at principles, too) as being sort of aesthetically disgusted by it.
"...  I think I'm great just the way I am, and so are you." -- Jazz Jennings



CPTSD
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Mark3

Quote from: Asche on October 05, 2014, 02:25:24 PM
I've never been very good at social action or anything, even though I do get very angry at injustice.  I guess what's important to me (and sort of relates to trans-ness), is: being kind and considerate and decent to other people.  Being honest.  Being fair.  You don't have to understand the other person -- often you can't -- but you can make a good-faith effort to treat them with respect.  No matter what they've done. 
I like this part.
I feel the same.
I try to be like this best I can.
"The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond life and death."
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Dread_Faery

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Shantel

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luna nyan

My passions:
God, family, friends, work, community.

For those who are in this community, I offer hope.  Transition isn't always the be all and end all.  Being trans doesn't exclude one from the love of God.

I'm still around, even though for all intents and purposes I'm done with this site as far as information and support reasons are concerned, for the above reasons.

Paying forwards perhaps?  Maybe, maybe not.  But if you can help and don't, can you live with yourself?
Drifting down the river of life...
My 4+ years non-transitioning HRT experience
Ask me anything!  I promise you I know absolutely everything about nothing! :D
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helen2010

Learning, growing, helping and supporting.

Just helping one person on their journey is motivation enough.  Helping folk understand and accept themself while avoiding many of the challenges, stress, self doubt, pain and invalidation that plagued much of my life feels like a very good thing to do.

Also sharing my life experience and reality with cis folk helps build their understanding and acceptance of the trans* community.

Aisla
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Alice Rogers

Can dysphoria be a passion? That is what drives me.
"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time." Jack London
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helen2010

Quote from: Alice Rogers on October 06, 2014, 06:06:26 AM
Can dysphoria be a passion? That is what drives me.
Alice
LOL :).  Dysphoria was certainly the driver for me as well.  Without dysphoria I suspect I would have had a brain gendered in line with my body and I would never have had the life that I have had.  While I would not know what I had missed I can't help thinking that while it would have been simpler, I dont think that I would feel as blessed as I do.
Aisla
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Mark3

Quote from: Aisla on October 06, 2014, 06:13:18 AM
Without dysphoria I suspect I would have had a brain gendered in line with my body and I would never have had the life that I have had.
Aisla
I wish I'd never have had to go through my life like this. With exception to the past months I started finding these things out about myself and even though i  feel better, most of my life was very unhappy, very self destructive, and terribly frustrating.
"The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond life and death."
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Shantel

Quote from: Mark3 on October 06, 2014, 08:01:39 AM

I wish I'd never have had to go through my life like this. With exception to the past months I started finding these things out about myself and even though i  feel better, most of my life was very unhappy, very self destructive, and terribly frustrating.

Glad you found us and yourself here Mark, hopefully as you develop a plan and some coping skills things will be better each day!
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