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Welcome to my Journey
Hi! I just created this blog on 6/19/2009 (late in the evening!). I have always wanted a place of my own to post my thoughts, write down my stories, share recipes, music and other things of interest to me. I also have wanted for a long time to start writing down stories from my life. My journey has been a very unusual one so far. I think there are stories to be shared.
Of late I have been reflecting on the past 2-1/2 years since I first came out as transgender and the years preceding those… and in fact have been reflecting back on my life. I am now at a point in my life where I can live freely as I am, without facade, completely authentic. I feel empowered as I have never been before. I have personal power that I have never felt before. I am grateful to God for granting me this freedom to be openly and honestly who I am, without fear or judgement, without shame or guilt (for what?). I am now aware that I was created this way, that I was meant to be who I am today, and that none of this is any kind of cosmic mistake or punishment. I am equal to all human beings. I take my place at the table of equality. We are all equal, the time has come for the world (the “all of us”) to realize this truth.
In just over one week it will have been 40 years since the Stonewall rebellion. We are fighting for our rightful place at the table of equality. WE know that we are equal. WE know there is nothing “less” about us. We know that someday soon we WILL overcome the tyrrany of bigotry. We are here at the threshold. We have been here knocking at the door for 40 years. We are not waiting 40 more years. Not even 4 years. Equality in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states will be ours soon.
But while we are this close, there is still much to do. Even with Civil Equality, we still need to educate. There still are not very many who really understand much about what it is to be transgender, what causes it, and what treatments work and what doesn’t work. The science is there now. Unfortunately the misinformation is so widespread that a lot of work remains to educate people ahout the facts. People need to know that this isn’t just some made up thing that one day we woke up and “chose” to be Transgender or Lesbian or Gay etc. People need to know that there was never a choice for us, except the choice of when to come out of the closet. The only choice we have ever had is whether to allow ourselves to die at the hands of shame, guilt, socialised ostricization, self-loathing, fear, harassment, bullying, violence, murder or suicide — or to choose life… to choose to come out and live, and to accept ourselves for who we truley are.