Transgender Day of Remembrance
It might seem like I'm just posting to post and not saying much, but really right now I am just... drained... by this, by the fact that it goes ever on and on, never ceasing. I wish I had words, words to thunder through all of the world and make the injustice tremble and crack
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I learned to accept trans folk because someone took the time to talk to me about them, about themselves, about questions I had, things I didn't "get" or understand. I learned that giving a fig how someone else defines themselves on this *one* facet of their humanity is so stupid, so superfluous, that it is as much a waste of time as caring how they paint their kitchen.
Trin, you know me well enough to know I'm not spouting off for a cookie or a pat on the head. Instead I'm putting this out there because I'm one of the converted. My eye-opening came from a minority woman who was an old school Leather Guard Dyke, a Domme, and she was also handicapped from a stroke. Over time she became my best friend before she passed away. The main reason I'm not the same bigot shithead I was destined to grow into was because that woman cared enough to help make one person a better man.
So don't despair. Hate can be un learned.
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