Criticisms and Misconceptions From People Who Just Don’t Know What They’re Talking About

Reblogged from Trans*forming Family:

I’ve had this blog for about fourteen months, and during that time have considered myself fortunate to have received very few negative comments or emails regarding my decisions about my transgender child. I also rarely check my blog stats, and at any given time could not even tell you how many followers i have (although my son occasionally updates me). I find it easier to imagine that i’m just writing to those of you who regularly comment and to those few whom i’ve shared this blog with who know me personally than the overwhelming and intimidating thought that any and every human connected to the internet can read what i write here.

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Haters are gonna hate, but this mother of a FTM trans kid warms my heart with responding to self-identified RadFem (TERF) rants about how she's an evil pawn of a patriarchy conspiracy that's hell-bent on a butch lesbian genocide via forced FTM transition. Hope everyone is has a wonderful Wednesday! XoXo Valerie
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Orgins of Diversity of Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity and How Discriminations Impact Health

A little presentation that was at the AMA. Yes it is a rather lengthy presentation, buuuut very educational. 

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Love is All You Need? Full Length movie

 

“Imagine a world where “gay” was “straight” and “straight” was “gay”…How Would You Live If You Couldn’t Love? 19 film festival awards with Lexi DiBenedetto bringing a best actress performance at the Sonoma International Film Festival. This film delivers life of those who are ridiculed, teased and bullied for being themselves. Feel the sting by writers who lived life being teased for being different. No gimmicky cliches, just raw emotion of living the live of a heterosexual in a gay world.”

Heya ya’ll figured I would share this YouTube movie that I saw this morning, and I do agree it’s very raw emotionally. So when you get time please watch it. Hope everyone is having a great week so far.

XoXo

Valerie

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“To This Day” by Shane Koyczan

Saw this shared on my Facebook feed, thought it was beautiful, and decided to instead of sharing it via Facebook/Twitter to post it here on my blog. Especially since it’s been a while posting anything here.

 

 

Enjoy! Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend so far!

XoXo

Valerie

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roseanne barr for trans-misogynist-in-chief

A very disturbing ordeal that happened on Twitter, and saw this entry retweeted and decided to share: roseanne barr for trans-misogynist-in-chief.

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Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit

Heya all, I hope everyone is having a great day, even though it’s Friday the 13th! Anyways here is what I’m doing next Friday:

 

Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: UHCL, Bayou Building, Atrium I
Category: Community
Description
Raise your awareness of transgender rights at this two-day nondiscrimination strategy-sharing summit that is open to area organizations as well as the general public. Featured speakers are Jean Latting, author of “Reframing Change,” Genny Beemyn, director of Stonewall Center at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Martin S. Ebel, deputy director, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This event is hosted by UH-Clear Lake and conducted by Transgender Education Network of Texas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the education of gender diversity. Cost is $10 for students and $20 for all others. For more information, call the Coordinator of Women’s and LGBT Services Julie Smith,            281-283-2578      ., or email smithj@uhcl.edu.
Contact: Coordinator of Women’s and LGBT Services Julie Smith
Phone:             281-283-2578
Location Details
UHCL, Bayou Building, Atrium I
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston Texas 77058 US
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Gender Signals

Heya all, I found this last night, and found it to be a very interesting watch. Yes it is a rather long video, however I believe it’s worth a watch. The video goes over Gender Codes that we are exposed to everyday with advertisements, and other forms of media. So get cozy and comfy, fix a nice snack and view this :)

 

XoXo

Valerie

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