Saturday morning I was out running and then in the afternoon we had a family trip to Ham Hill for ice cream and to fly my son's remote control helicopters, sadly it was too windy for us to be able to control them enough to get them to fly where we wanted them to.
Sunday morning was a long bike ride, managed 41 miles in just under 3 and a half hours. That included being cut up at one point by an idiot in a car who wanted to do a U-turn and decided to pull over to the side of the road about 5 yards in front of me. They then proceeded to reverse back towards me because they'd overshot the place where they could do the turn. Fortunately the rest of the ride was less eventful.
Anyway, here's three days worth of question responses.
Day 18 - How do you feel about the
trans laws where you live
Friday 19th April
I'm OK with the laws in the UK. We have
laws that protect people from what comes under the term hate crime,
employment regulations protect people from discrimination on various
grounds including gender.
Other than that I don't really know
what laws there are that are related to being trans.
Day 19 - If your religious how do
your views effect being trans if your not religious what about your
family religions
Saturday 20th April
Well I'm definitely religious. I'm a
Christian and part of the congregation at a Church of England church.
My religious views don't effect y being
trans. For as long as I've been attending church I've been dealing
with being trans. When I decided to transition I did go through a
period where I struggled with my relationship with God but I've
worked through that.
I don't see being trans as being in
conflict with my religion. The Bible doesn't specifically say that
being trans is wrong. God made each and every person and made them
the way he did for a reason. He made me trans for a reason. I'm not
sure what that reason is but I know that one day I'll find out.
Perhaps transitioning is not what God intended for me, perhaps he
wanted me to struggle with it all my life. Its not happened that way.
Perhaps God wanted me to transition at
the right time because being trans and having transitioned to being
female full time has a purpose to it. I'm not sure what that purpose
is but since about a year before I transitioned my confidence levels
have been growing. At one point I wouldn't have contemplated taking
on a role at work where I would be visible to the wider world. Now I
don't see that as being a problem. Perhaps being trans and a
Christian is something that I've got to be because its something that
the wider Christian church needs to be more aware of and more
accepting of.
Heck, between being trans and also a
burlesque performer I'm certainly not your standard Christian.
Perhaps people need to learn is that Christians are not what you
might think and that they can be kind, loving, caring and
compassionate, believe deeply in God and also be what you might not
expect.
I posted about a friend who passed away
recently, he was a remarkable man. His funeral was last Friday. As I
sat there listening to another friend from church telling everybody
at church about his life and the things that he had gotten up to I
found myself thinking that if he could do the things that he'd did to
help people, then I can do things to help others within the trans
community and within the wider community.
Day 20 - Do you want to be a parent
why or why not
Sunday 21st April
I'm happy to say that I am parent to
one of the most caring, brave young men that I've ever known. My son
has been through so much in his 15 years. He's had to be extremely
brave and has dealt with things due to his leukaemia that most adults
will never ever deal with during their entire lives. I am so proud of
him. Being a parent is one of the things that I am so glad that I
did. If I never ever achieve anything else in my life then I can at
least say that I raised him.
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