It gets a bit wearing sometimes. [Zoe Brain]

[Hazumu]

A.E.Brain

Often,I wish I could leave all this behind. I've transitioned, after all, and could go back to well-merited obscurity, just another soccer mom, an academic doing a PhD and bringing up her seven year old son. Just life.

But while a single person is drowning, how can one leave the pool? Had I taken the usual route to womanhood, had I had the XX chromosomes and such, I like to think that had I been made aware of the situation, I couldn't rest until I'd done something to help. That I have a view from the inside, as it were, doesn't matter. I just wish I could do more.

At least, now this blog is being archived by the National Library, there will be a permanent record of how it was, and how we felt, back in the Dark Ages of the Naughties. How being victimised, we refused to become victims.

How we moved that mountain, one teaspoon at a time.

[Natasha]

It gets a bit wearing sometimes.

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2008/08/it-gets-bit-wearing-sometimes.html
8/19/2008

This year, an 18 year old beautician was found dead in her flat. She'd
been dead about 3 days.

She'd been garrotted with a scarf, so tightly wrapped around her neck
that the ambulance crew couldn't put a finger beneath it.
Unconsciousness would have happened within seconds as the carotid
artery was compressed, and blood prevented from getting to the brain.

[NicholeW.]

Yes, Zoe, it does get wearing, a lot of times. All those cases of where the victim is tried rather than the perp. Not only do they get wearing, they get unbearably wearing.

Maybe it's time for less than 1% of the population to simply start screaming "THIS is more than enough."

Nichole

[Sheila]

I agree this is a bit wearing sometimes but when most of that 1% won't say a word and speak up, what do you expect. I try to speak up but my communication does lack a little. I'm barely a high school graduate and yet have encountered, no numerous times, that I have not the education to be speaking about this. I don't know the big words to confuse the people we are trying to educate, I don't know all that has happened to me in medical terms. I can't write three or more pages of something that only need to have a few words. My attencion span for reading long articles is low and the same for books, so I would think that would be the case for a lot of people who we are trying to educate. I am really happy that the few who do educate people and not afraid of the masses that might hurt you are doing a superb job. Just think, 10 years ago, how many people knew about trans people. Now look at it, we are in Congress fighting for our rights.