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So far, it seems calm here. Don't know if I can talk about it all without tears.
As worries as I am???
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We will survive [USA]
Our local pride center has a chorus which is giving a concert tomorrow (thurs), and we're doing "I Will Survive" as one of the pieces (I have a solo in it!)
Anyway, I thought it was appropriate, because I believe we will survive. It won't be pretty, there will be pain, maybe a lot, but as a community, we trans people (and LGBT+ people in general) will survive. We have suffered persecution and oppression in the past, and we've still been here.
So we need to hunker down, or stand up and resist, or find sneaky ways around them, or whatever we need to do. But WE WILL SURVIVE.
im not so sure
many of us are tired of fighting just trying to survive and be our selves i know i am .emotionally exhausted more than tired i think is closer to the truth .
And this too shall pass.
I grew up in the fifties and sixties when being gay was illegal and if you were trans, the only reason would be because you wanted to hook up with a man... gay by default.
They would have happily wiped us out then, but couldn't manage it. I heard reports of cross-dressed men being arrested because they were in disguise and therefore must be criminals.
It was a crazy world for the LGBT. Gay bashing was in and decency was out. The only avenue open was to be deep in the closet. Go to the library and look up cross-dressing (remember the wall of card files needed to find books in the library) or transgender, a new term, an you'd find psychological studies of the mentally ill folks that practiced such things. Likewise for homosexual, lesbian and bi-sexual. All of them were two steps away from the asylum and aversion therapy or maybe a lobotomy.
Crazy times, but we survived. Sadly not all of us and some who grew up then are still emotionally scarred from it. Still transgender and the like didn't go away then and won't now.
The political pendulum has swung just about as far right as it can go. It won't stay there forever. It will swing back. The trick would be to limit the length of the arc so that neither extreme is reached so the there will be minimum discomfort for us when it goes right and minimum outrage from the bigots when it goes left.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
How long will it go on?
When half the population has been brainwashed to believe the lies that the POTUS Elect spews with every breath? Even his VP had to lie to him about how 'good' he was during his debate with Harris. Then he says, 'I've been getting calls from Senators' extolling his performance. Yet, the cameraman had been shooting him since he left the debate stage and at that point ZERO calls from anyone had come in. Lie after lie after lie and he calls the current VP a liar.
I think that it will take longer than most of us will be alive before that pendulum swings back. By then, the damage may well have been done.
Samantha
Minor Correction...
...from one of those people who looked in library card catalogs in the mid-to-late 1960s: the "new term" then was transsexual, not transgender. Even Robert Stoller, who wrote the book, literally, on Sex and Gender in 1968, used the TS terminology. (And I don't remember cross-dressing as a term then; at least it never occurred for me to look there; it was transvestism.)
Eric
Another term used ...
... was eonism, after that well-known French aristocrat of dubious gender Chevalier d'Eon. There was even less information when I was searching 10 years earlier. It was the story of April Ashley, who died fairly recently, that made me realise I wasn't totally unique but, before the 'net, there was very little information.