Trans Hate Legislation: Keeping the Dream of Life Alive
Transgender Transitions: Reflections from the Other Side
You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
-Margaret J. Wheatley
I am a Transgender woman.
I completed my legal transition in August of 2021, and my medical transition in May of 2022. I am completely, physically, and legally, a woman. The old man is dead.
The world is a hateful place right now.
Hate is promoted by religious leaders and politicians who lust for power and will say anything to satisfy or rile up their constituency. They get away with it because we transgender people make up a mere, at most, .3% of the human population. They get away with it because the more than 62% of the human population who have no problem with us remain silent, because they see us as a ‘fringe issue’.
They need to start speaking up!
The politicians get away with restricting trans healthcare because the medical practitioners that provide trans healthcare are also a very small minority.
It’s time for the entire medical community to stand up against any and all legislation that place barriers or restrictions on any type of the licensed practice of medicine. This has to include all branches of medicine; e.g. Cardiovascular, Radiology, Oncology, Orthopedics, etc. — everyone!
I’ve never been in examination room that is large enough to hold my provider, myself, and a legislature. My doctor’s opinion is adequate, thank you!
During the years leading up to world War II, a poem was written about apathy in society. These words are now more important than ever:
First They Came — by Pastor Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
