Then again it may be to you but not to the person next to you. Sure, we are all humans and all different. No real problem with that until someone decides to not respect your difference
For transgender or transsexual folk-this is particularly true. We live it.
Jillian Page writes a very interesting blog for the "Montreal Gazette" .
Her latest post "My Identity, My Right" (in a round about way) addresses the "It is what it is" dynamic.
Jillian begins with a mention of recent progress made in Argentina — which allows people to
change name and sex based simply on how they feel, without any forms of
approval from anyone else.
Here's the good part:
" I wish to remind all of my trans readers
and their supporters that you don’t owe the general public any
explanations or apologies for your transgenderism or transsexualism.
Religious fundamentalists, RadFems et al are entitled to their opinions
about trans stuff — to a point — but those opinions are irrelevant: You
owe them nothing.There’s no need to try to convert them to your way of
thinking, or to tell them to mind their own business. Just hit the
“ignore” key, literally or figuratively, when their negativity gets you
down.
Of course, when it comes to being oppressed by people who oppose
transgenderism, that’s another matter. Then it’s time to take a stand.
But trans people already know that . . . Smiles . . . You are doing very
well, sisters and brothers. You are making progress by leaps and
bounds.
So it is what it is- if you believe!
Thanks Jillian.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
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