The cities like Lincoln and Omaha are pretty cool. For the most part people are open minded but often only to an extent in Omaha. Lincoln is like college town hippie liberal kids lol. Omaha is like, "Wow I have gay friends, wow I have trans friends, I am SO open minded. Oh you want rights? But that's against my christian republican values.... but you're a great friend."

It's just weird.

For every completely open minded person you DO meet you meet at least one ->-bleeped-<- who is completely closed minded.

I also get a lot of people who are excited to meet me because I'm trans and we are apparently like Santa, mysterious and magical. You'd think candied rainbow unicorns fall out of my ass when I walk or something.

Small towns are hit and miss, some just don't care if you are anything different so long as you don't talk about it. Very much the idea of what you do in your own home is okay, just don't force it on other people. Then some small towns you walk in and get chased out lol.

Quote from: tekla on July 21, 2011, 10:11:21 PM
It's the only FtM murder on the books anyone can find.  I would not make too much of it.  It's not likely to be repeated.

Also, on a general note, where the heck do you get these facts? It is FAR from the only FTM murder on books. In fact it isn't even considered by many people to be an FTM murder outside of the transsexual community because Brandon never actually voiced to anyone that he was in fact trans. Some people felt that he was merely trying to pose as a boy because he was a lesbian and was hiding from the law. Without Brandon alive we will never really have an answer, we just assume we have one. I've actually met people who grew up with him in Lincoln and they have all said that they DO believe he was trans, but he never once really voiced to them that he actually believed he was a man and not just that he was having fun passing as one.

Regardless of that fact though, this generalization that it's the only one on books is just incorrect anyhow.

Quote from: Cowboi on July 23, 2011, 02:16:45 AM

A bit after closing time for bars they did come to the lake looking for us, shot guns in hand and everything. A whole freaking posse of rednecks came to hunt me. It was ->-bleeped-<-ing great. Thank God for 4 wheel drive, off road driving, creative driving (made our own exit through a pasture since there is only ONE road in and out) and enough gas to not stop till we made it back to Omaha. If all of those things did not exist I would not be alive today.

Holy ->-bleeped-<-!  I'm glad you made it through.  That's an amazing story you have there. 

Yeah, that movie made me cry big time.... It is hard to watch, my feelings on it are a bit ambivalent though; on one hand it is almost a cautionary tale of what happens when you try and change your outside to match your inside, and on the other hand it raises awareness that people like Brandon Teena exist, and they need to be protected by the law. The way law enforcement handled things in his story was terrible.

That and, I know a few people who never even knew FTMs existed before that movie.

Quote from: Hikari on July 23, 2011, 03:51:54 PM
Yeah, that movie made me cry big time.... It is hard to watch, my feelings on it are a bit ambivalent though; on one hand it is almost a cautionary tale of what happens when you try and change your outside to match your inside, and on the other hand it raises awareness that people like Brandon Teena exist, and they need to be protected by the law. The way law enforcement handled things in his story was terrible.

That and, I know a few people who never even knew FTMs existed before that movie.

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