It's finally Spring! Yay!!! The flowers are coming, the leave on the trees will soon grow, the sun will become warm, all will be right again!!!
There's also Transactivism in the air! In Connecticut this past Thursday there was a hearing on the Trans rights bill. I didn't attend but I did submit "my story" via email late Wednesday night. It was to be read on Thursday during the CT legislative session. Earlier in the week on Tuesday, St Paddy's Day, I was at Love Makes a Family, the group that was largely responsible for making same sex marriage legal in CT. LMF was filming me and my positive story of transitioning at my workplace. This filming was to be a vehicle to help people understand the needs for Trans rights. LMF is now supporting Trans rights. Yay!!! It's nice to have an established ally on our side!
Last night I picked up Keri and Ann and we headed off to Pittsfield, Massachusetts where Justin Adkins and Gunner Scott hosted an MTPC, Massacusetts Transgender Political Coalition, meeting. Gunner has the MTPC thing going on in Boston and Justin wants to start a branch for the western MA Transfolk. MTPC is working for Trans rights in MA.
So my Transactivist streak has been turned on lately. I'm even considering NCTE Lobby Days in DC in late April, I've lobbied a few times before in Washington, DC and it's quite an empowering experience.
Just a few short years ago I was hopelessly lost in the closet. At the same time the Trans rights groups were also in a kind of closet. Oh, they were out there doing their thing but their efforts weren't really known to the world, even the Transgender world. But now things seem to be wide open. There are Transpeeps visible everywhere and the lobbying efforts are solidifying and there is a very good chance that we can make some real legislative headway this year. The whole Transgender movement seems to have come out of the closet and into being a viable, known force in the political world! The times they are a changin!!!
So Spring is in the air, there's Transactivism everwhere, I'm smiling and energized as my pic above shows. This was taken last Thursday at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. It was a piece called "A Thought at the Edge of a Continent". I liked the piece and I considered it a playground for the mind. Besides I like lights!!!
There's also Transactivism in the air! In Connecticut this past Thursday there was a hearing on the Trans rights bill. I didn't attend but I did submit "my story" via email late Wednesday night. It was to be read on Thursday during the CT legislative session. Earlier in the week on Tuesday, St Paddy's Day, I was at Love Makes a Family, the group that was largely responsible for making same sex marriage legal in CT. LMF was filming me and my positive story of transitioning at my workplace. This filming was to be a vehicle to help people understand the needs for Trans rights. LMF is now supporting Trans rights. Yay!!! It's nice to have an established ally on our side!
Last night I picked up Keri and Ann and we headed off to Pittsfield, Massachusetts where Justin Adkins and Gunner Scott hosted an MTPC, Massacusetts Transgender Political Coalition, meeting. Gunner has the MTPC thing going on in Boston and Justin wants to start a branch for the western MA Transfolk. MTPC is working for Trans rights in MA.
So my Transactivist streak has been turned on lately. I'm even considering NCTE Lobby Days in DC in late April, I've lobbied a few times before in Washington, DC and it's quite an empowering experience.
Just a few short years ago I was hopelessly lost in the closet. At the same time the Trans rights groups were also in a kind of closet. Oh, they were out there doing their thing but their efforts weren't really known to the world, even the Transgender world. But now things seem to be wide open. There are Transpeeps visible everywhere and the lobbying efforts are solidifying and there is a very good chance that we can make some real legislative headway this year. The whole Transgender movement seems to have come out of the closet and into being a viable, known force in the political world! The times they are a changin!!!
So Spring is in the air, there's Transactivism everwhere, I'm smiling and energized as my pic above shows. This was taken last Thursday at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. It was a piece called "A Thought at the Edge of a Continent". I liked the piece and I considered it a playground for the mind. Besides I like lights!!!
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Hmmm, somehow I can't post my pic for this entry. Oh well, just imagine my smiling face in front of a bevy of 10' fluorescent lights!
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