Yes, I support both rights for transgendered persons, as well as an end to discrimination against us:
- we should be able to legally change our names and gender markers
- we should be able to gain employment without discrimination. For many, coming out as trans is a death sentence for their careers.
- we should be able to find and obtain medical care without discrimination from doctors who fear losing their cis patients
- we deserve the right to conduct ourselves in normal public life without being treated like freaks and pariahs - often even by the media
There are many rights we should have that we currently do not have. If you don't believe me, then why do you think our suicide attempt rate is 41%?! Choosing life over death should be the obvious choice - for so many of us, it's not.
I'll say this to all of you who complain "women can wear men's clothes, why can't I wear women's clothes?" -
You haven't earned the right to wear those clothes!
Women fought long and hard to have those rights. They did this without the privilege you enjoy as men. Most of you haven't done anything to fight for your right to present as you choose without harassment. Instead you've ridden on the coattails of the tiny transsexual minority. But we are few in number, fractured as a community, and we're losing this fight.
Help us. Fight for your rights.
