I’ve been engaged in LGBT activism for many years. I’m currently in the leadership group of Center Bi in Washington DC and TheBiCast, a podcast for the bisexual community. I do a lot of tech work for the movement and continue by helping this site.
Hi, my name is Shalee, and I am seventeen years of age. Biologically, I am female. Shalee is also the name I was given at birth, and I use this name 90% of the time, with the accompanying she/her pronouns. I am a proud part of the *trans community, and I identify as genderfluid.
As long as I can remember, I’ve realized that I was a bit different. But it wasn’t until I was in about 7th grade that I realized that there was a name for what I had always felt; Genderfluid.
I remember, from the age of birth until about age seven, that I always felt more masculine as opposed to feminine. I vividly recall my parents allowing me to go shirtless as a child, and I would also always wear my younger brother’s boxers.
My parents didn’t mind; They just thought I was a “tomboy.” Stranger’s always thought that my younger brother and I were twins boys, because he and I both had long hair, and wore boy’s clothing. As a child, I always neglected that atypical girl’s toys. [Read more…]
Hi, I’m Ellie 18 MtF. I made this piece in support of Leelah. I see stories of others and it breaks my heart to see the discrimination in this world. I am one of the lucky ones as i have received very little negative responses. I take it as a good thing, but i feel like it’s so unfair for everyone else. Why must everyone else suffer. I am support Leelah’s law, i’m trying to get the word out as much as i can. I want to do more. I want every trans person to have the positivity i receive.
Mariana Blan My name is Mariana Blanco and I am a proud bisexual. Five years ago when I was 15, my parents found out thru my principal that I was bisexual. I wasn’t ready to come out, and it hurt me deeply that a school official who I thought I could trust just told my secret.
When I got home, I hope for the best you know? Maybe my parents will accept me and love me. But it was horrible, my mother told my father who just came from work and I was hiding in my room. And my dad, a huge homophobic, broke open my door and beat me. He and my mother beat me until I couldn’t speak or breath. He spat on my face, and when I was whimpering in pain, they stopped. Only to call me a disgrace and that I was a selfish person for destroying the image of the family. [Read more…]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Princeton, NJ (December 30, 2014) – Leelah Alcorn Suicide – A Call to End Conversion Therapy
Mental health professionals and transgender people are painfully aware that trying to force a person into a false gender identity can severely harm the individual, and may ultimately lead to death. Leelah was subjected to a discredited and life threatening practice known as “conversion therapy” by her parents, which, combined with active suppression of her gender identity, ultimately brought about her death.
This practice has been roundly condemned as dangerous and ineffective by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association, among others. They and we believe that no transgender person should ever be subjected to psychological brainwashing tactics. Nor should any parent or teen ever be led to believe that such “therapy” can have any beneficial effect.
In honor of Leelah Alcorn, we call for the immediate creation of a federal law to be known as Leelah’s Law to prohibit dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ for transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual youth. The use of any religion-based “conversion therapy” is an atrocity against our youth and must be banned in all fifty states. [Read more…]