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I've decided to emerge from the shadows

Started by cymoril, October 25, 2015, 11:23:24 PM

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cymoril

Hi all!!  Just wanted to make a simply request.  I would like to become more active in representing our struggle for our rights.  Honesty, I've rested on my laurels for too long.  So, to make this short, how can I help with our struggle.  Thanx:)
  Stephanie Garrett
Don't really know what to write here...  So I'll just write a little about myself.  For conciseness, I am a 48 y/o pre-op transsexual who's in a wheelchair.  I'm wheelchair bound due to AVN(avascular necrosis) which took three and a half inches from my right femur and I acquired due to HIV.  I got infected by the first man I was ever with.  So, after spending 40+ years in Texas and getting three felonies, I decided to move to San Francisco.
  I got here in 2010 and continued to drug myself until something happened...  I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do know I did something to ease my pain, which didn't help and I ended up in the ER.  After that, mind you I could still walk, barely, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis.  Immediately I was sent to a hospital in really bad shape.  I was addicted to a copious amount of drugs and weighed less than 90lbs.  I was near death.  I spent two and a half years in hospital, quit drugs, got my own place and am doing quite well.
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suzifrommd

I would suggest making yourself visible as a trans person. Be willing to educate people about who we are and why we do what we do. The more people know the reality (as opposed to the picture painted by the media), the easier time we will have it.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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Dee Marshall

I agree with Suzi. The best thing those of us who are willing can do is to be out there and visible, regardless of our stage in transition. I'm entirely out at work despite my job making it difficult or impossible to wear makeup and our clothing options being unisex. On vacation I did outreach. I spent the whole day at EPCOT in shorts, sneakers and a red sports bra. On the cruise I was just as out (except in foreign ports, not ready to risk that in Mexico or the islands yet.)

People like Janet Mock, like Caitlyn Jenner, are important to our acceptance, but they're singular, they can be dismissed as rare and not an example of reality by people who would rather we didn't exist. Trans people, visible everyday, will be what gets us accepted.

Perhaps it's a dangerous path,but a necessary one.
April 22, 2015, the day of my first face to face pass in gender neutral clothes and no makeup. It may be months to the next one, but I'm good with that!

Being transgender is just a phase. It hardly ever starts before conception and always ends promptly at death.

They say the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. I say, climb aboard!
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