Spreading the Word

Ayup

This is going to be a departure from my usual content, but I felt it was important to post this, especially since I didn't post anything for any other remembrance days up until this point. If this is the kind of thing you dislike, please just bare with me and I'll get back to my regular content soon, but this is something I feel I have to post.

Today, 20th November, has officially been marked as 'Transgender Day of Remember', in other words a day to remember people who were attacked and murdered for the simply being who they are, killied because some people are so fixated on gender roles that they cannnot accept those who don't fit into those roles.

Now I'm not a transgender but I do know one or two people both online and in real life who are, and it pains me to know that people like them, friendly people who aren't doing anything wrong, could be killed for such petty reasons is just heartbreaking. Plus I tend to by the Lloyd Irving/Tales of Symphonia philosophy of 'Everyone has the right to live freely no matter who they', so know that anyone would kill another human being because of vain reasons such as race or gender which they can't control just saddens and angers me to no end; and before anyone buts in, no they can't control it.

To transgenders their physical and mental genders aren't the same; it's not a case of starting off female but choosing to be male (or vice versa) but a case of always being male but somehow ending up in a female body, and scientific studies show that trying to suppress it artificially (hypnosis etc.) just results in chronic depression and in some cases schizophrenia. It's a tough life, one that is hard to understand from the outside (hell I doubt this little explanation does it justice), but the least anyone can do is accept who they are and treat them like any other human being, it's not that much to ask is it?

So yeah, spare a moment to think about it, spread the word if you want to, and at the very least try to be understanding, because (ToS Quote again) from the moment they are born, everyone has the right to live.

Until next time.