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Ellen Adele Harper's avatar

Yeah. They think being trans is a choice. They don't understand, trans people are born trans. When I was a kid (60s & 70s), there wasn't even a word except transvestite, or queen, and later shemale. We had major trouble even realizing our truth, much less understanding it or expressing it openly. After the advent of the birth of LGBT out of the AIDS epidemic and then the advent of the internet, it became easier to access information, find others like you. It became somewhat more socially acceptable. That's why so many are coming out now as children and being accepted as such by their parents. When I spoke of being a girl as a young child, I was discouraged. All of us who came out in adulthood know the internal agony in which that results. That's what these knotheads want to return to. We'll win out eventually, we are at the forefront of social evolution and have the impetus. But we're going to have to stick to our guns for ourselves and future generations. In the short term, it could be tough, but the truth will prevail.

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Lisa Welch's avatar

I am just a mom of a transgender teen, not a member of the LGBTQ community so I would never have the audacity tell those directly affected by this law what to do. But I will tell you from my view as someone who went from advocate to protestor to parent begging legislators to plaintiff suing a state, non-violent resistance is a little less far on the horizon. We're not quite there yet but should it come to it, I will aid and abet. I will not follow an unjust law.

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