After. I know at least that in the area I live, transgendered people are protected by an anti-hate-crime law, which is more than can be said for everywhere.
However I am also mch more aware of the injustice against transgendered people in specific that spans EVEN across the GLB(t) community... I remember that I could never make use of the local GLBT youth centre (the attic) because the non-transgendered people (Mostly gay males (I'm not prejudiced, they attacked me)) would not stop harassing me. I was constantly subjected to even worse ridicule than I had been in GRADE SCHOOL for goodness sakes.
I am also more aware of discrimination and the lengths that individual people go to to marginalise the rights that the law has seen fit to give us..... And we're still considered second-class citizens by most, some of them even in government, although at the very lleast I know a good loophope that would allow me to marry my beloved partner (currently of the same physical sex.. But there will be a window of opportunity when that is not so..)
I dunno. I've seen the situation improve for my born-in-gender homosexual friends, but its still extremely hard to live liffe as a transsexual as far as discrimination goes. I am a pacifist, but if I didn't carry a weapon, I'd be dead -_-
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Date: 2004-04-29 09:54 am (UTC)However I am also mch more aware of the injustice against transgendered people in specific that spans EVEN across the GLB(t) community... I remember that I could never make use of the local GLBT youth centre (the attic) because the non-transgendered people (Mostly gay males (I'm not prejudiced, they attacked me)) would not stop harassing me. I was constantly subjected to even worse ridicule than I had been in GRADE SCHOOL for goodness sakes.
I am also more aware of discrimination and the lengths that individual people go to to marginalise the rights that the law has seen fit to give us..... And we're still considered second-class citizens by most, some of them even in government, although at the very lleast I know a good loophope that would allow me to marry my beloved partner (currently of the same physical sex.. But there will be a window of opportunity when that is not so..)
I dunno. I've seen the situation improve for my born-in-gender homosexual friends, but its still extremely hard to live liffe as a transsexual as far as discrimination goes. I am a pacifist, but if I didn't carry a weapon, I'd be dead -_-