Teri Jean
02-11-2011, 03:19 PM
First off this may be in the wrong location so if it is please accept my apology and place it appropriately.
We normally sit and ask for help with GRS, HRT, family issues, friendships and such but what does one do when there is a twist of sorts and you are asked to speak to a group on what it is to be transgendered. When I started my transition two years ago I was right where one would think, the land of WTH is going on and where do I go? You know what I mean and through this forum we have helped each other in ways that boggles the minds of those who are not Trans.
So last year at the beginning of the fall semester I was asked to speak to a class on what it is to be transgendered (TS) and so I did. Just recently I was tapped again to speak and this time the class was for those studing to be HR Directors. So for the second time this girl who is more comfortable in a machine shop, repairing locks in doors and operating a steam generation plant is now standing/sitting before a class of 4th year college students giving a presentation of transgendered issues; challenges, victories, and not failure but things that could have gone better.
Today when I openeed my e-mail from work the faculty member sent me a fairly long and touching response not only from her but the entire class of appreciation. I must have reached many of them as the responses were of how much they had gained from that hour to how differently they see our community (possitive).
In discussions we criticise the world and why they cannot understand or at the least accept us for the wonderful people we are. Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Executives, Engineers, Trades workers, Etc. who's only crime is we don't fit the two categories that they have been led to believe as "normal". We need to step up to the soap box, like I am right now, and help those unforunate souls out there who are still ignorant to what gender is. Not the two sided coin but the field of such a diverse planting of humanity.
So this is my charge and some will say not me but it only needs to be one-on-one or it can be in a classroom setting or as some have done in the media (paper or electronic or radio). Either way one chooses to spread the truth of being transgender it will be spoken to the masses. JMTs Have a great day and safe journey where ever you travel.
Teri Jean
We normally sit and ask for help with GRS, HRT, family issues, friendships and such but what does one do when there is a twist of sorts and you are asked to speak to a group on what it is to be transgendered. When I started my transition two years ago I was right where one would think, the land of WTH is going on and where do I go? You know what I mean and through this forum we have helped each other in ways that boggles the minds of those who are not Trans.
So last year at the beginning of the fall semester I was asked to speak to a class on what it is to be transgendered (TS) and so I did. Just recently I was tapped again to speak and this time the class was for those studing to be HR Directors. So for the second time this girl who is more comfortable in a machine shop, repairing locks in doors and operating a steam generation plant is now standing/sitting before a class of 4th year college students giving a presentation of transgendered issues; challenges, victories, and not failure but things that could have gone better.
Today when I openeed my e-mail from work the faculty member sent me a fairly long and touching response not only from her but the entire class of appreciation. I must have reached many of them as the responses were of how much they had gained from that hour to how differently they see our community (possitive).
In discussions we criticise the world and why they cannot understand or at the least accept us for the wonderful people we are. Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Executives, Engineers, Trades workers, Etc. who's only crime is we don't fit the two categories that they have been led to believe as "normal". We need to step up to the soap box, like I am right now, and help those unforunate souls out there who are still ignorant to what gender is. Not the two sided coin but the field of such a diverse planting of humanity.
So this is my charge and some will say not me but it only needs to be one-on-one or it can be in a classroom setting or as some have done in the media (paper or electronic or radio). Either way one chooses to spread the truth of being transgender it will be spoken to the masses. JMTs Have a great day and safe journey where ever you travel.
Teri Jean