Prejudice And Rights- Why All In Our Community Need Gender Protections

[Hazumu]

Bridget "Sei" McBride is a trans-lesbian who lives in Vermont and has a strong passion for LGBTI rights.

... most men would react with horror at the idea of having their penis and testicles reshaped and altered to the extent required for this to happen. Most transpeople have such a hatred of their own bodies that they will actively attempt to mutilate themselves. Some transwomen have actually gone to the lengths of actual emasculation in order to end the psychological pain caused by the physical wrongness. Even I, myself, have engaged in a great deal of physical damage to my own genitalia because of the intense hatred I feel about being born male.

And yet, we must come back to where this began. The reality is that almost all transpeople are not gays or lesbians who have sold out or straight people who want to get in on the "glamor" of being homosexual. We, as a community, must be unified. The reality is that those who oppose us, and seek to repress us, want us to fight and to hurt each other. They want us to not put aside our differences, and they want us to not protect each other...

(bold mine, =K)

[Vicky]

Her point on this one is in the dead center of the target, but I am sad to say it will bog down on lables, and who has been picked on the worst, with the prize going to the bloodiest victim.  Wait a minute??  Haven't all of us had our dead???  Ok thats the only way out of life itself!   

One of the signers (Ben Franklin I suspect) of the Declaration Of Independence put it succinctly:  "...we all must hang together in this endeavor or surely we shall be hanged separately!!!  The red coats are coming!!

[Miniar]

it's the age old parable of the sprigs and the bundle... which does make me a little sad that some people insist on being sprigs.