Why Bill C-389 is Important Part One: My Story
by dentedbluemercedes
April 21, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/why-bill-c-389-is-important-part-one-my-story/NEW: Do you have a story of trans-related discrimination at your job or public accommodations? Have you ever been assaulted for being trans?
Tell me your story in a couple paragraphs, and let me know a name or nick that you'd like attributed. I'll do my best to post them here, where people can refer, to see and/or show exactly why passing Bill C-389 is important.
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I've experienced some discrimination. But for sake of brevity, will stick to relating my own experience of violence.
It was kind of surreal, and ironically, it occurred while I was still essentially in the closet, aside from some artwork posted and displayed under an alias. I arrived home after work, and there were three people I didn't recognize sitting on the grass by the parking lot, talking. It looked like they were fixing the fence, some of the boards had come off, and two of them were holding boards as they spoke. The third was leaning on a golf club, which I thought a bit unusual.
Out of the blue, they ask me if I'm (old m name). Not thinking, I replied, "yeah, why?" and the next thing I knew I was being attacked. In the first article I ever wrote on trans issues, I took some flack because I glibly referred to it as beating up a golf club and two fence boards with various parts of my body — believe me, it was not particularily fun, but being glib sometimes helps lessen it now.
