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CO School Board Member: Transgender Student Require Castration (Original Post) circlethesquare Nov 2013 OP
Catherine needs nykym Nov 2013 #1
another one? elehhhhna Nov 2013 #3
What the hell? shenmue Nov 2013 #2
She doesn't get the concept that when one is transgender, one is trying to live in an envelope of Nika Nov 2013 #4

Nika

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4. She doesn't get the concept that when one is transgender, one is trying to live in an envelope of
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:42 PM
Nov 2013

comfort as the gender they know they are in this world where we transgender people are ironically begrudged transition surgery help.

I am blackly amused by her mean spirited disdain for what one has to go thorough to deal with a mind and body that contradict one's gender.

I know what gender I am, and I don't need panicked, "oh God she has balls" bigotry as she projects to others.

I hope this incident is an opportunity for her to encounter insight as to her bigotry in this area. She already has enough compounding of ignorance going on in her life obviously.

As a transgender woman, I try to forgive this sort of bigotry to the extent I don't want to waste energy returning hatred in exchange for hatred. I feel sorry for this woman more then anything else.

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