In light of recent discussions on the forum, and in light of the broader societal conversations going on in the country right now, I thought it would be a good idea to dedicate a thread to gender identity affirmation and trans-affirming news. I’ll go first:


“Colorado now requires private health insurance plans to cover gender-affirming care for trans people like facial bone remodeling and hormone therapy.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/104614032...ealth-insu

Killing of woman with ‘heart of gold’ makes 2021 deadliest year for trans people on record
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/ma...-violence/

Tragic figures confirm most dangerous place to be trans as 2021 becomes deadliest year on record
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/11/tr...e-figures/

I read recently where they issued the first X gender U.S. passport.

As a transgender female, I am hardly noticed when in one of my full skirts, tee, sunglasses and sandals, but, when wearing jeans & a teeshirt, I have had cars stop at intersections for excessive periods of time to gawk at me, cars drive by slowly, people yell slurs at me on a few occasions, and one slap to my head from a moving vehicle (which I posted about here.)

If I ever stop posting here, know that someone either killed me or I died suddenly from some medical condition.

(November 11, 2021 at 11:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote: As a transgender female, I am hardly noticed when in one of my full skirts, tee, sunglasses and sandals, but, when wearing jeans & a teeshirt, I have had cars stop at intersections for excessive periods of time to gawk at me, cars drive by slowly, people yell slurs at me on a few occasions, and one slap to my head from a moving vehicle (which I posted about here.)

If I ever stop posting here, know that someone either killed me or I died suddenly from some medical condition.

I saw where you posted this before, and I'd really like that people acted better. Fat chance for all the people in the world that that is going to happen. 

(November 12, 2021 at 12:10 am)Fireball Wrote:

(November 11, 2021 at 11:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote: As a transgender female, I am hardly noticed when in one of my full skirts, tee, sunglasses and sandals, but, when wearing jeans & a teeshirt, I have had cars stop at intersections for excessive periods of time to gawk at me, cars drive by slowly, people yell slurs at me on a few occasions, and one slap to my head from a moving vehicle (which I posted about here.)

If I ever stop posting here, know that someone either killed me or I died suddenly from some medical condition.

I saw where you posted this before, and I'd really like that people acted better. Fat chance for all the people in the world that that is going to happen. 

I don't think that such individuals are bad, just on the wrong side of history. Like phrenology and racial bigotry, discrimination against gender nonconforming individuals is destined for the historical trashbins, eventually.

I hope you're right. We seem to be regressing in that and many other regards.

Of course they're bad people. We can't ever properly progress if we keep applying apologetics to their ignorance.

Anyone who wants to abolish the rights, that they themselves take for granted, for others not like them, is not a good human being.

Equality is for everyone, not just the select.

(November 12, 2021 at 1:29 am)Jackalope Wrote: I hope you're right. We seem to be regressing in that and many other regards.

The same thing happened with voting rights, which were given to women by certain states only to be taken away and restored later on. Transgenders, gays and other "nonconformers" have been around since the dawn of humanity; we are not going to disappear. I do not believe that Western law is going to be able to accommodate institutionalized discrimination against us. If it is one thing that Republicans value, it is money, and a lot of companies are going to refuse to do business with public bigots, even if they are bigots themselves, in private.