Interestingly enough, the "Citizens for Responsible Government" (our friendly neighborhood anti-trans opposition group that sponsored the referendum efforts here in my home county), are still at it, gathering petitions. Once again, lying to and generally trying to scare the hell out of as many people as possible in the immediate vicinity of where I live, work, and shop here in Maryland.
This, even though the high court of appeals here has thrown out the referendum attempt, and the non-discrimination law which includes gender identity is now in full effect here.
Apparently this is being done under the pretense of 2 things:
1) "In order to inform the public how dangerous this law really is", and;
2) That there is some apparent magical backdoor legal provision that will allow them to still continue this referendum on the law, by collecting enough signatures this time, even though The High Court ruled and the law is in full effect at this time
Here's a couple of links:
http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/what-shower-nuts-think-can-happen.html (http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/what-shower-nuts-think-can-happen.html)
http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/shower-nuts-are-still-at-it.html (http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/shower-nuts-are-still-at-it.html)
http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/this-one-might-take-cake.html (http://www.teachthefacts.org/2008/09/this-one-might-take-cake.html)
Here's an interesting thought i had in response to this continued perversion of "Traditional moral values" and so called "ethics".
I am going to live.
I am going to live and there is nothing that propagandistic fear-mongering can do about it.
I am going to live, and go to the grocery store when i need or want food and have the money to go there.
I am going to live, and i will go to the bank, and the post office, my gym and swimming pool, and to vote, and to pay my bills just like everyone else. (Provided people will give a job to someone based more on qualifications, than discriminations)..
I am going to live because i am a human being and you cannot take that from me no matter what you do or say. I am going to live and laugh and love, and hold my dearest best friend – my wife and soulmate.
I am going to live, and love my friends, and cry when i am sad, or when someone i love passes away, or becomes ill, or suffers some horrible misfortune.
I am going to cook the most incredible foods you could ever imagine and do it with love and passion and creativity. I am going to talk to people in public and make some friends in the process because i am a warm and outgoing person that likes to connect with other people.
I am going to live in the joy and wonder of a thunderstorm or, the wondrous beauty of a flower that I grew from a seed, and you cannot take this away from me.
I will help those in need even when i do not have enough to help my own self or my own household - and i have been this way for many years.
I am going to live and love and laugh and cry and experience the world, and my life as a woman in this world, and there is absolutely nothing that any of them can do to stop it - no matter what hatred they bring down, no matter how many minds they poison with lies and misperceptions and stereotypical cruelty and insensitivity.
I am going to live and be a part of public society, like it or not and there will be nothing any of you can do to stop it. No matter what you do. I am going to live forever because you cannot kill my spirit.
I am going to live, and even welcome those that do not welcome me.
I am going to live to the fullest extent of my ability as a free human being no matter what cage or construct or label you try to fence me in behind. I will break that fence, i will tear the labels, i will bend the bars of your cages and I.WILL.LIVE.
You cant even see the prison that you live in because it's all you have ever known.
I stand outside of your prisons of fear and hatred and lies, and look at you with sadness, and hope and pray that you will find a loving human heart that knows acceptance, instead of the fear that keeps you from seeing things as they really are or really could be.
I am going to live. Truly live with gusto and relish and boundless joy and unconditional love, with a clear conscience of being myself real and true, and with the God given freedom i was gifted with, from the moment i was born.
You cannot stop this. You will not stop it. You cannot claim the right of the only judge to do so, and that judge is not yourselves. Nor does your book give you the authority to claim such a right, and it never has.
I am going to live, and look the most heinous evils of lies and bigotry and hatred right dead in the eye, and i am not going to blink while you are exposed.
I an going to live despite what you think you represent, and have disgustingly scared or fooled others in to thinking is correct and true, when in fact it is lies and hatred disguised as love and truth.
I am going to live my life, and be the girl, and the good person, a good wife, and a good friend, and nothing you will do, can ever stop me from being the real human being that I am.
Many blessings always,
Most Sincerely,
I AM,
Maryanne
p.s. I hope some of you can join me sometime. Unconditional love and true joy sure outweighs hatred and falsehood and fear, by about 6 billion to the hundredth power."
MaryAnne,
I think you should make a handout of what you just wrote and pass it out alongside those boneheads. However, I have some concern for yours and all other trans folk there right now as evidenced by one comment on the third link you posted above, i.e., they are making targets out of trans people by unfairly comparing us to sexual molesters and rapists.
Keep up the good fight but, be careful out there!
Dawn
Quote from: Dawn D. on September 26, 2008, 01:27:07 PM
MaryAnne,
I think you should make a handout of what you just wrote and pass it out alongside those boneheads. However, I have some concern for yours and all other trans folk there right now as evidenced by one comment on the third link you posted above, i.e., they are making targets out of trans people by unfairly comparing us to sexual molesters and rapists.
Keep up the good fight but, be careful out there!
Dawn
This is nothing new, Dawn. This tactic was used to keep slavery going, to demean Native-Americans, and other minority groups to keep them in their place. One thing to remember is that the powers that will resort to anything, including murder, to keep that power.
Gennee
you are so brave..
I know what I am saying is a little silly....but....
what should we do ? I wanna come to a more opened city ...what else can I do... uh..
Posted on: October 04, 2008, 04:53:55 am
I WISH I COULD SEE YOU...