Right now, same-sex marriage is a hot button issue. I believe in love, so I'm not going to sit here and start attempting to validate anything. I don't need to. What I do want to talk about, just for a moment, is trans-rights.
I get made fun of every day. In every conceivable way. And, I'm lucky enough to be one of the rare people who suffers clinical depression and occasional suicidal thoughts about it, so that only manages to make it worse. What might not make it so bad is if the population of what is considered the "best" country in the world would stop attacking trans people for just wanting to be who we are.
This country likes to make us out to be jokes, make us out to be monsters, makes us out to be anything but what we are. People who have to work exceedingly hard just to maintain a glimmer of image that makes us feel comfortable with ourselves. I hate this fact, and I hate the fact that in order to make any effort to fix this, it's expensive, painful, mentally debilitating, and can be harmful to the psyche.
I'm not asking you to stop liking the people you like simply to show a pretend understanding of those who are different. I'm not even asking you to accept trans-people, really. Just stop mocking us. If you don't want to accept us, then leave us the hell alone. I'm tired of being terrified, I'm tired of being afraid, I'm tired of being mocked, dehumanized, criminalized, demoralized, and I'm REALLY FUCKING SICK of being seen as less than a person because I don't feel right. To those lobbyists and politicians who think I'm nothing more than a sick individual, I'll grab some scissors and see how you feel about it.
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