Lord knows, I am not a teacher. Nor do I want to be. But I find myself teaching others a lot, just little things I know about the world now and sharing whatever insight or “wisdom” that I may or may not possess.
Tonight at my rehearsal, I had the opportunity to teach some of my band friends something that perhaps that might not have learned. We had somehow gotten onto the topic of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and everyone in between when one of my friends called trans* people “trannies.” You can imagine my uncomfortable laughter, I’m sure, but once everyone had settled down, I politely corrected him, “Well, those people are more commonly referred to as ‘transgender,’ nowadays.” He laughed and said something about “Oh my badd” and a few other people laughed at him for making the mistake, but it led us into a very interesting conversation. A lot of the people there are quite conservative (or perhaps sheltered is a better word) so they were really quite hung up on the whole transition thing, so I walked em through it saying that I’ve known several people who have become their true gender and how it felt to watch them change into who they were meant to be. I described the greatest transitional moment for one of my friends was when he asked me to start using male pronouns when referring to him and this kinda blew all of these conservative people’s minds.
“So like Bruce Jenner wants to be called ‘she’?” “Yep, just like that! She’s going through her transition and it can be really hard when you’re in the public eye and that’s why a lot of the media makes fun of her for it.” “Oh well, that’s not cool. She’s just trying to express herself.” (Another friend) “Yeah, I get that. Like logically, if you really felt like a different gender, why wouldn’t you want to make how you look reflect that? They should be able to freely express themselves.”
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW FUCKING HAPPY I WAS AT HEARING EVERYONE TALK ABOUT THIS AND BECOME SO ACCEPTING SO QUICKLY. I was scared when I first commented that I would receive backlash, but collectively we were only met with a better understanding of the trans* community which made me and continues to make me a very proud LGBTQAA+ person.
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Trying to Teach Others
Jan 28
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Lord knows, I am not a teacher. Nor do I want to be. But I find myself teaching others a lot, just little things I know about the world now and sharing whatever insight or “wisdom” that I may or may not possess.
Tonight at my rehearsal, I had the opportunity to teach some of my band friends something that perhaps that might not have learned. We had somehow gotten onto the topic of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and everyone in between when one of my friends called trans* people “trannies.” You can imagine my uncomfortable laughter, I’m sure, but once everyone had settled down, I politely corrected him, “Well, those people are more commonly referred to as ‘transgender,’ nowadays.” He laughed and said something about “Oh my badd” and a few other people laughed at him for making the mistake, but it led us into a very interesting conversation. A lot of the people there are quite conservative (or perhaps sheltered is a better word) so they were really quite hung up on the whole transition thing, so I walked em through it saying that I’ve known several people who have become their true gender and how it felt to watch them change into who they were meant to be. I described the greatest transitional moment for one of my friends was when he asked me to start using male pronouns when referring to him and this kinda blew all of these conservative people’s minds.
“So like Bruce Jenner wants to be called ‘she’?” “Yep, just like that! She’s going through her transition and it can be really hard when you’re in the public eye and that’s why a lot of the media makes fun of her for it.” “Oh well, that’s not cool. She’s just trying to express herself.” (Another friend) “Yeah, I get that. Like logically, if you really felt like a different gender, why wouldn’t you want to make how you look reflect that? They should be able to freely express themselves.”
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW FUCKING HAPPY I WAS AT HEARING EVERYONE TALK ABOUT THIS AND BECOME SO ACCEPTING SO QUICKLY. I was scared when I first commented that I would receive backlash, but collectively we were only met with a better understanding of the trans* community which made me and continues to make me a very proud LGBTQAA+ person.
-Hope xoxo
P.S. in the video, I am the one in black 🙂
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