#trans post

Every hateful comment, every bigoted post, every transphobic message you leave in here is visible to everyone for as long until it's deleted from the net, and even then it may not fully leave, whether you wanted it or not.

And every attack you make towards the transgender community -the Whole community- is an attack towards me and all the trans and genderqueer people i know, some which are my friends.

So, i ask all of you, the people of my own community, my own kind, to stop with the hatred and oppression.

Stop recycling all the TERF ideology in communal safe spaces and around minorities.

Stop with all the jokes about killing trans masc with bombs and poison.

Stop listening to those who have nothing but hate to spill and start unlearning all the transphobia you've heard for too long.

You all can do better. We can all do better. It's never too late.

We do not need to pull each other down and betray our genderqueer siblings and friends and loved ones just for some imaginary brownie points you seem to award yourselves every time you tell a trans masc to kill himself for identifying as a man, or tell trans women they are not trans or feminine enough to earn a protected space to exist in.

I want to believe we can all change the course and get along together again some day if we all just put enough effort into it, if we all just choose to abandon transphobic rhetoric and ideas just as quickly as we picked them up.

We are all trying to survive in this world, so what is the point of tearing some of us down for doing just that?

The community infighting has to stop. We can do better.

There are so many positive and encouraging things about being transgender, about being genderqueer, so why not focus on those instead of the negative things?

Basically if you don't know, like in most countries if you're a queer man or a trans women in order to give blood, you need to confirm that you haven't had sex with men in the last three months. Basically to give you had to let Lifeblood and therefore Red Cross monitor your sexual activity.

Australia has lifted that restriction.

Therefore queer men, trans women, sex workers and people with AIDs taking PrEP will no longer have to divulge their sex life.

Can't wait to see the push back from every news source and 'allies'

Jay Lynn Gomez

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1986

Ethnicity: Mexican

Nationality: American

Like little story time here.

So when I was but a young kindergarten lass I had a fun play friend named Jasmine now Jasmine was in the same class as me and we spent time together ALL THE TIME. We sat together in circle period, Snack time we'd share our lunches, and play time we were always each other's playmates. Not gonna lie it was pretty serious for a kindergarten relationship.

Now we were only friends at that time BUT I already knew there was no one other than her I'd love to spend my life with.

So one night as I'm having one my nightly chats with mother dearest as she braids my hair I tell her that I'm gonna marry Jasmine.

Immediately my deeply catholic conservative mother tells me:

Oh no sweetie. Girls can't marry girls. But I'm sure you'll both be very good friends!

As you can tell I was immensely disappointed. And I tell you this was where the little Gaylord in my head starting their scheming cause immediately after my sweet conservative Catholic mother uttered those words I began cooking up this idea in my head that I'd dress up as a groom and marry Jasmine. And let me tell you I had this all planned down to the shoes I'd be wearing. It was a mix of Gomez Addams and Mafia boss down to the pinstriped suit, black and white spats, mustache and all. The only thing that was missing was grey sideburns and a caramia.

Hell I even planned how we'd rendezvous at the park and get married in the little chapel then go to the petting zoo beside it.

It got to the point that I'd DREAM about it.

But then I changed classes and since my mother refused to network for me like she did with my other siblings I never heard from Jasmine again. Nonetheless, I still await the day where we can meet again and hopefully rekindle our spark.