We should stand up and fight

[transgender]

We transsexuals are being discriminated against, everyday.

IT'S SO WRONG

We are not second class citizens, we are not freaks, we are NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS like every one else.

Just because we are born with this condition doesn't mean we deserve to feel bad about ourselves, it doesn't mean we are worth any less than anyone else.

I'm tired of seeing my transsexual brothers and sisters put themselves down. Feeling inferior, feeling depressed, not having any hope for the future, even after transition. We don't deserve this.

SO many of us kill ourselves because we can't take it. It's time to stop this. It's time for us to be recognized as deserving the same rights, the same COMPASSION as everyone else. Cis gendered people don't know, they can never know what it's like to live this way, but they must be made to understand that it is not easy, and that we are not doing this because we have some mental illness.

I have much love for the transsexual community, for all of you, for what you no doubt have suffered in the past and will suffer in the future. What's truly tragic about it is, it doesn't have to be this way. Society must come to terms with the minority of its population who are transsexual, and accept them as a fundamental part of the community.

I'm tired of feeling inferior. I'm not a freak. And neither is any other transsexual. We deserve acceptance, we deserve love and tolerance. Because we are human beings just like everybody else. Don't you agree?

[Nicky]

I really feel the anger and pain you have, and frustration.

But I don't know. I don't feel discriminated against every day and I don't feel bad about myself (except for self inflicted stuff). I live my life the best I can, openly trans. I don't feel inferior. I refuse to be a victim. That is my fight.

Certainly we deserve the same human rights as anyone should deserve. I really do think we would be better off fighting for general human rights.

[Janet_Girl]

I fight when I stand up proud to be me.

[Dianna]

I don't feel any fight or discrimination on a daily basis, had my GRS years ago and never think about all this stuff.

[NDelible Gurl]

I fight by giving it my best. People are pretty naive when it comes to our segment of society anyway! They do not believe we could be scientists, doctors, or just remarkable in the spotlight

I do feel the anger sometimes when my guard is down but I find myself rebounding and I'm back up again! I think a good quote I read is "One day at a time." For myself "one thing at a time" seems to fit my sitch right now. Peace

[tekla]

but they must be made to understand

What are you going to do?  Waterboard them?

And, FTR, people have been out fighting for decades now, and in a lot of places they have made great gains.

[barbie]

Yes. I do not care so much about what other some insignificant people talk, but my family is different. What if my little daughter talks like "Dady, you should not wear a skirt, should you?", which I head yesterday night while having dinner 

Barbie~~

[mr_marc]

I fight when i need too, like when i or a friend is treated in a crappy way.
But something needs to be done, words obviously arent getting through.
Like today i saw something happen.
Some girl screamed ->-bleeped-<-, i thought it was at me (ya know the paranoia thing were you think every one knows)
Well it wasnt, it was to some woman behind me who's obviously just started.
And aload of people were laughing at her.
it was sick.

[K8]

I fight by transitioning openly.  I am a normal human with a normal condition that I am dealing with.  People see that I am normal and accept it and accept me. 

I speak out against intolerance of those who are different.  I am one shade of different.  (Probably every human is "different" or "other" in one way or another.)

- Kate

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – Martin Luther King

[noeleena]

Hi.

  Well this is war then is it .

I would have to say its better to infiltrate through the war zone alive . & mix with the opposing side ,
  There are ways to get people on your side with out this war like stance .
   i have accomplised more in 12 years than my other 50 as a male i have spoken to over 3 millon people ,been in the papers & on 287 net work sites around the world & spoken face to face with over 300 people
  & am involoved with 1000s of people .groups & clubs & just people i meet every day
  is that enough ,

  sorry i dont do war.  i have done all this in the last 3 years
& im a no body just some back ward kiwi hick  from new zealand, & im accepted with out .....? .....as a woman
  when ,  you have infilltrated my war zone please tell me how you did it .
  I belive this was given to me & the way it was done has worked .
  You wont friends then be one first , thats the best way to go about it .

...noeleena...

[Kristyn]

There are many ways to fight, if you want to call it that, though I am more the lover type. There is the anger, shouting, protesting, advocating, passing laws, feeling like victims, harming ourselves ways.

The way I choose is to live well, showing those around me that I love myself, that I am happy and embracing life, that I treat others with respect and courtesy, that I am open for friendship. By being an optimist, being someone others want to be around, sending out positive energy ...and by smiling. How can you not like someone who looks you in the eye and smiles. And by doing those things, I am changing those who know my past away from fears and misunderstanding. I see it every day in their looks of respect and acceptance.

I don't even like to use the term 'them' because that implies we are separate.

I have to agree with you.  I would also like to add that I fight by rising above the negativity.  By using the taunts as a cue as what needs to be corrected.  For example, people laughed at me for being fat--I lost the weight.  They laughed at my hair--I fixed my hair.  They laughed and made comments about my skin--I fixed my skin.  There's really not much more that people can laugh at anymore.

I see those that once did and I now find myself on the side that should be laughing but I don't because by doing so would be lowering myself to their level.  Many cannot even look me in the eye and when I encounter one of those individuals, I smile knowing that I've won--and they know it too.

We can yell, kick, scream and protest all we want, but I highly doubt that any of that will change much as ours is not so much a fight of acceptance, but of fitting in--and each and everyone one of us has to work d**n hard at it.