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RE: A Transwoman's thoughts: "Operation Anti Moral Illness" and effects here on Steemit

in #lgbt6 years ago

Agreed. I am never seeking to change someone, or even change their mind, because by the time we are school-age we are pretty much set in our ways. I didn't take your comment as directed at me in any way, I just wanted to make it clear that it was me, so any retaliation for it is at least directed at me and deflected from those who weren't responsible for it. I'm perfectly willing to be the attack dog, if it's necessary.

You raise a good point, perhaps THE point: Why don't they just stop using the #LGBT tag? I for one wouldn't have seen any of those posts, or gotten involved in this. It's a first-world problem, of course. We have the luxury to care about our online blogs. LGBT people in the real world are disowned, abused, harassed, tortured, raped, murdered ... at rates that would alarm polite society if it was almost any other demographic. That's what concerns me. That's why I fight. Because not everyone can, or will, and I hope to change the world so they don't have to.

I was trained by the military but was not in the military. I got a 1470 on my SAT and a 99 on the ASVAB in 1990, but every single recruiter who came to my house with their mouths foaming said (one of them verbatim), "We don't take your kind."

So I've fought for my country, for the principles it claims to uphold, often directly opposed by this country's governments.

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So we are clear I take zero pride in the fact that i served, it was torture on every level for me, i try to make up for the fact that i took part in such awfulness daily. It is still true that i was trained there, and it mstters in how i present myself, it helps people understand my mentality i suppose, but i have no pride in the experiance. I survived it, thats all.

I think we are eye to eye on our approach and our goals. 100% WTF right? first world problem or not but stop using the tag and solve all the problems, you shit in my yard then burn my house down for yelling at you for shitting in my yard and im the asshole? People be backwards as fuck sometimes.

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