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Live your truth.
Nov. 20th, 2008 03:41 amToday is a day of remembrance.
Today is to remember people who have been killed for not following the rules.
If you disgrace your body by dressing, acting, looking the way your heart tells you and it's not the way that society believes you should? The penalty can be disapproval. You could lose your home. You could lose your job. You could lose your family.
Or, like the people in the link above, you could lose your life. Each of them died while, and in some cases because, they were not meeting someone's standards for what a man or woman should look like.
This is to remind us all that there are people out there who believe they are justified in murdering someone for not meeting their standards for masculinity or femininity appropriate to their physical sex.
If you don't want this to happen, then you can enforce on yourself and on your family the duty of always abiding exactly by the local norms of behavior and dress, for whichever physical sex you happen to have. You can dress like everyone else, regardless of what it says about you, your religion, your beliefs, or your comfort with your own body. And then you don't have to worry about this kind of problem.
Or you can say "I should dress and act and look in a way that speaks to my soul, that is right, that is true." And you can grow or cut or cover your hair, wear dresses or pants or shirts that show your tummy, wear makeup or jewelry or both, or whatever you like. You can speak for your right to do so, show people that you're just the same as them in some ways, different in others. It's your truth and you decide how it's done.
Remember those who have fallen while living their truth.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Today is to remember people who have been killed for not following the rules.
If you disgrace your body by dressing, acting, looking the way your heart tells you and it's not the way that society believes you should? The penalty can be disapproval. You could lose your home. You could lose your job. You could lose your family.
Or, like the people in the link above, you could lose your life. Each of them died while, and in some cases because, they were not meeting someone's standards for what a man or woman should look like.
This is to remind us all that there are people out there who believe they are justified in murdering someone for not meeting their standards for masculinity or femininity appropriate to their physical sex.
If you don't want this to happen, then you can enforce on yourself and on your family the duty of always abiding exactly by the local norms of behavior and dress, for whichever physical sex you happen to have. You can dress like everyone else, regardless of what it says about you, your religion, your beliefs, or your comfort with your own body. And then you don't have to worry about this kind of problem.
Or you can say "I should dress and act and look in a way that speaks to my soul, that is right, that is true." And you can grow or cut or cover your hair, wear dresses or pants or shirts that show your tummy, wear makeup or jewelry or both, or whatever you like. You can speak for your right to do so, show people that you're just the same as them in some ways, different in others. It's your truth and you decide how it's done.
Remember those who have fallen while living their truth.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
