Actually here in O_H-I-O we have officially entered "Indian Summer" and the weather as always is staking out it's claim to the end of summer with high humidity and temps near 90.
This post though, I'm referring to a different "Autumn"-
Autumn Sandeen. She is the retired transgender veteran who is working so hard for the rights of all transgender veteran.
You all probably know by now, I'm one of those vets
and rely on the Veteran's Administration for my HRT needs.
So, almost anything post I can find from Autumn Sandeen I try to pass long and here's an excerpt from the latest:
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| Autumn Sandeen |
"When I joined the U.S. Navy back in 1980, I knew I was transgender. I didn’t know the word transgender, but I knew deep down that’s what I was.
Prior to joining the Navy, in 1979, my pentecostal parents considered transgender identities and transgender expressions to be sinful, and made going to “conversion therapy” a condition of living at home. Due to my own internalized transphobia, I thought I was sinful too, so I underwent the therapy, which had the goal of having me become “ex-transgender.”
A goal of both gay and transgender conversion therapy is to embrace societal gender role norms, so in my case embracing masculine norms was the goal. It should come as no surprise then that when I enlisted in the Navy in 1980, it was in part an attempt to be the man I wasn’t.
Chelsea Manning, who enlisted under the name Bradley Manning—and who in August received a 35-year prison sentence for releasing classified government documents to WikiLeaks—recently gave that same explanation as to why she enlisted."
This article comes the
RH Reality Check site and you can go
here for more.
As a side note, Autumn mentioned she grew up in a "
Pentecostal" family. The "Penny-Cost-alls" I know would
definitely consider being transgender, gay or lesbian very sinful and I shudder to think what sort of "conversion" therapy they would consider! My next post will deal with the "Pennies" and more.
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