Unwaivering

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all... are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.     Those sacred words come from America's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.  The United States' founding fathers understood that in order for people to thrive it was necessary for them to have the freedom to pursue happiness.  Founding father, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the quote, "The Constitution guarantees you the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself."  But, how are the people expected to pursue happiness and to thrive when Congress blocks the very avenues needed for such pursuit?      Where transgender people are concerned, Republicans are either ignoring the truth, or they are ignorant of the truth.  That truth is that gender identity is a natural part of the human exper...

      I remember a time when it was sound advice to tell someone experiencing a personal conflict to "listen to your inner person."  Whatever happened to that kind of advice?  I'll tell you what happened to it.  Trans people decided to pay attention to what their inner person was telling them and live in accordance to that.  All of a sudden, armchair psychologists began springing up everywhere, including the White House, telling transgender people that they're mentally ill for listening to the person they are on the inside.  You know... the person with the answers.  These people can be male or female, but mostly their male.  In either case, however, I call these people cissies.  I define a cissy as a cis gender person who lacks the combined intellectual and emotional maturity to allow trans people to live freely.     I've been told that I shouldn't make such statements, though.  They say it'll only make cissies angrie...

      Let's be clear and honest about this:  Transgender people didn't ask to be trans any more than left-handed people asked to be left-handed.  This is no less natural than left-handedness.  Once upon a time, left-handed people were treated with the same angst and prejudice that trans people are facing today.  Back then, the hatefulness (let's stop with the self-deception... it IS hate) probably caused many a good left-handed person to experience depression, even commit suicide.  That was your predecessor's fault.  In time, it was eventually realized that there was nothing wrong with people who wrote, ate and just conducted general behaviors with a left-handed dominance.     Fast forward to now...  It has FINALLY been realized by the general medical and psychological communities that what turned out to be true for the left-handed community is also true for the transgender community.  This is not a known fact, however, be...