"I am" -- a list of people who make a difference.

[azurelunatic]

I am...

I am the guy who came out to the entire school in his senior speech and got a standing ovation for his courage.

I am the girl who kisses her girlfriend on the sidewalk and laughs at those who glare.

We are the couple who planned and studied and got a damn good lawyer and BEAT the state that wanted to take our child away.

We are the ones who took martial arts classes and carry pepper spray and are just too dangerous to gay bash.

I am the transgendered person who uses the bathroom that suits me, and demands that any complaining staff explain their complaint to my face in front of the entire restaurant--and shares with my other trans friends which restaurants don't raise a stink.

I am the mother who told her lesbian daughter to invite her girlfriend over for dinner.

I am the father who punished his son for calling you a fag.

I am the preacher who told my congregation that love, not hate, is the definition of a true follower of God.

I am the girl who did not learn the meaning of "homosexual" until high school but never thought to question why two men might be kissing.

I am the woman who argues (quite loudly and vehemently) with the bigots who insist that you do not have the right to marry or raise children.

We are the high school class who agrees, unanimously, along with our teacher, that love should be all that matters.

I am the woman who cussed out the person who was using hateful language to a complete stranger on the sidewalk.

I am the woman who spoke up at work.

If you agree, add your own and repost this. Do it. You don't have to be afraid. You can handle it. You're stronger than you think.

I am making a difference. Hate will not win.
(found with biichan.)

Comments

[darqstar.livejournal.com]

Do you feel the same the other way around? That if a girl felt like she was really a guy she should use the men's room?

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

[darqstar.livejournal.com]

See, I'd be a bit nervous about that. Not that the girl who should be guy is making the guys uncomfortable, but more that if she/he was discovered, he/she might be hurt.

[azurelunatic]

Ah, that chasm in my mind between "ideal" and "actual".

I'm more concerned, actually, about MtF ladies getting the shit whacked out of them. Of course, I base that on my small sample size of Berv on the one side getting lots of dangerous situations thrown her way and B--- on the other side getting tougher and scarier.

[wibbble]

What kind of restaurants do you eat in? :op

I've never eaten anywhere - even pubs, even in America - where a woman in the male toilet would face physical danger.

[darqstar.livejournal.com]

Restaurants for the most place no. (Although I've slung hash at a few truckstops that I'd be worried)

I'm thinking more of bathrooms in some stores, that are located in the very back of the store, almost like an afterthought.

A woman once went in one of those with her son, cause the ladies room was being cleaned and her son really had to go. A couple guys came in and...well, let's say it could have been a very nasty situation if the son hadn't run out the door and screamed for help.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Hmm. This, combined with your earlier statements, makes it sound rather like your concern in *each* case is for those with the female body parts, and that in *each* case the needs/desires/sensibilities of those with boy-bits need not be considered.

Which I'm sure is not what you meant to say at all.