“Claiming that someone else’s marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a peanut butter sandwich because you’re allergic to peanuts.”
—You’re not eating it… so, it’s harming you how?
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Oppression is Yucky: trigger warning: sexual assault →
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Understanding The Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adult Survivors
My StoryWhen I was a kid, I was sexually abused twice (that I can remember). The particular type of abuse I went through was child-on-child sexual abuse. This particular article doesn’t mention…
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“• There was a slightly jarring moment when a fan asked the panel if there would ever be a female Doctor, and Steven pointed out it would be entirely possible, but then asked for a show of hands who would like to see it happen. This got about 50% of the audience raising their hands, but he then asked how many people would switch off the show if there was a female doctor, and 20-30% of fans put a hand up, to a certain amount of gasping from everyone else.”
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BBC America, blogging from the dr who convention (via vinegarwilliams)
Jesus, Whovians. I am not pleased.
(via ignatius-m)
wow… :(
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A lot of people seem to think what they do can’t make much of a difference, because they’re just individual people among billions of others. Some people wish they had a purpose, or were as important as other people, but believe that they’re not. People get into this mindset, and then they make stupid decisions or just let themselves float through life doing nothing.
But get this: you’re just as important as everyone else. Maybe on our own little home planet governed by our own rules you’ve been born into great wealth and power, extreme poverty, or something in between, but I’m speaking on a bigger scale here. We created that world, and those rules. No one told us to. We just did. No one is born with a specific, predefined purpose. We don’t have some master to-do list handed down to us by the universe, if you will. All you can do is create a purpose for yourself and make it matter. The fun of life lies in coming up with this purpose. Follow your passions and do what feels right to you, and you’ll end up making a bigger difference than you ever thought you could.
People need to get this. Seriously.
” —George Woodliff-Stanley (via love-and-space-time-continuum)1923) I feel that I'm not taken seriously as male in the community because I have a child and I breastfed her. I am forgoing taking hormones so I can have more children naturally so they are biologically mine without the risk of further complications because of hormones. People who used to take me seriously have started calling me my birth name, female pronouns and 'mummy'. I love my child! But i dont know if feeling like this is worth more children and for that I feel bad because I know my partner wants more.
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This is so sad. I hate that our community polices gender like that.
Ugh seriously. Just because he had a kid doesn’t mean he’s not a dude. That’s like saying “oh well you actually used your vagina, so you don’t count, but it’s okay if you have a vagina and don’t use it, cause then you’re a dude”. How retarded is that? Don’t reduce people to a body part. Seriously, If this were me, I might start calling my friends “hey dick, what’s up?” “how you doing, titties?” Then again, I’m a real bastard when I don’t like something so… people might not wanna follow my example.
Some Resources for Transgender Rights [Extended] →
ACLU: Know Your Rights - Transgender People and the Law
http://www.aclu.org/hiv-aids_lgbt-rights/know-your-rights-transgender-people-and-lawHRC: Finding Insurance for Transgender Related Healthcare
http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/finding-insurance-for-transgender-related-healthcare
(note: read this carefully and you’ll notice the requirements are extremely restrictive and most insurance has a specific exclusion for it)HRC: Transgender People and Marriage
http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/transgender-people-and-marriage-the-importance-of-legal-planningCalifornia Transgender Law 101
http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/pdf/ca_trans_law_101_overview.pdfSome additional resources from the National Center for Transgender Equality:
Participating in Direct Actions: http://transequality.org/Resources/DirectAction_Nov2011_FINAL.pdf
Transgender Federal Employees Know Your Rights: http://transequality.org/Resources/FederalEmployees_Dec2011.pdf
Medicare Benefits and Transgender People: http://transequality.org/Resources/MedicareBenefitsAndTransPeople_Aug2011_FINAL.pdf
Transgender People and Passports: http://transequality.org/Resources/passports_2011.pdf
State Driver’s License Policies: http://transequality.org/Resources/DL/DL_policies.html
Federal Taxes and Transgender People: http://transequality.org/PDFs/IRS_Factsheet_2010.pdf
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
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The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
