Article Transgender people are attacked in a more violent manner than any other types of persons, gays included, says Toni. "Instead of shooting you once, they will shoot you a thousand times even when you are dead. They want to destroy you until there is nothing left of you."
Looking at some information he retrieved for me from the internet, I see a picture of a man on the mantle. I ask him if the picture was of him before the change. He views the picture, then comments, "It looks like a dream. I don't know how to describe it. I look at it and I say who is that? It's unreal."
His wife, who has been ill, decides to talk to me. I ask her how her husband's becoming a transgender has affected the family.
"It makes me very bitter simply because we have no freedom here in the Bahamas, so everywhere you go you get ridiculed for it," she says. "You get comments and then you have the fear of people becoming obnoxious or nasty towards it. Anytime she goes out now she wears her nail polish and everything. You know she is into the public's eye and people do not agree with it, they make their comments. I do not want to be a part of that. That does not change the way I feel about him/her or anything like that because I have been with him for eighteen years. That's my partner, that's my soul mate. If there was something that I could give him to take to cure all that I would, but the world is not like that, it will not change.
