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[dolari]

http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/1551868.html

This is why I do the Webcomics DOR.

We are second class citizens. And we are dying.

Comments

[audaciousd.livejournal.com]

Well said, and very true - it is much easier to kill (or hurt, or anything negative for that matter) someone that you see only as a category... not a person. And unfortunately, TG folk are often seen as a novelty at best. :/

[vonandmoggy.livejournal.com]

It's very horrible. Until our society, in general, stops categorizing and treats people as people this kind of thing will continue to happen. We have, as a species, a remarkable ability to classify people and thus dismiss them. Murder, rape, and other acts of violence (both physical and emotional) become "easy" as a result.

So what does one do? I think the only answer is to keep going forward and being who you are. It's the only way, at what I think is a fundamental level, to make change. By being who you are.

Which, y'know, seems pretty cool from where I sit. :)

Von