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Twin Boys, One Transgender, Become Brother and Sister
As early as age 4, Wyatt Maines asked his mother, “When do I get to be a girl?” And he told his father he hated his penis.
Wyatt always liked girl’s clothes and movies, while his twin brother Jonas played with traditional boy toys.
Born identical twins, the siblings share the same DNA, but their gender identification took divergent paths. Now, at age 14, they are brother and sister, as Wyatt’s transition to Nicole is well under way.
Nicole is 5-feet, 1-inch tall and 100 pounds; her twin brother is 5-feet, 6-inches and weighs 115 pounds — and they are best friends.
Their story — marked by tearful emotions, bullying at their first school and eventually a lawsuit and a move to a different town — was chronicled in the Boston Globe on Sunday.
(via exteen)
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Bullycide
It’s a new word that disheartens me, being bullied to the point where the victims feel worthless enough to take their own lives. There have been some high profile teen sucides in 2011.
Jamey Rodemeyer (14 years old) took his own life after posting a You Tube video ‘It gets better’ and he believed it did at the time, but in the end it wore him down.
James Hubley (15 years old), supported by his parents, bullied by his peers at school.
The list is longer, even if there was only one name on this list, it is one name too many, but the fact is that the list of gay and lesbian youth commiting suicide in 2011 is extensive, and for every suicide that gets reported, how many have been missed?I’m a 43 year old gay man, I knew I was gay when I was 12 years old. Between the ages of 12 and 16 I was bullied relentlessly, mostly verbal, ocassionally physically. Ostracised and alienated I became reclusive and entertain thoughts of suicide.
I read so many blogs of gay teens, how they are bullied, how they feel lost, lonely, scared and I feel like I am a teenager again. I am gutted by the knowledge that there are teenagers going through the same thoughts and emotions that I have been through. I am completely devestated when I read that they have taken their lives and I am left to wonder ‘What would it take to stop you taking your life, what could I have done to keep you in our big gay family?’
Stopping bullying sometimes seems like an overwhelming task and in this day and age of the internet it just seems like it is everywhere that you turn, but I am going to stand in the corner of any victim that comes to me and asks me for, I don’t know how I am going to help yet, but i’ll be fucked if I’ll stand back and watch a life destroyed if I can change that.
This is a team effort, so don’t take those pills, don’t play with razors, don’t play with rope, just reach out and ask for help. Stay with us, your lives, even though you don’t know it right now, is worth more than anything else on this earth. Your life can change another person life so don’t send the message that it is ok to give up, send out the message “WE WILL STAND TOGETHER AND DEFY THE H8’.
