trans | Dec. 28th, 2001

You do not have to live in the area!
Please send an email to transcendfl@yahoo.com RIGHT NOW!!!

St Petersburg, FL Human Rights Ordinance AmendmentPetition
We the undersigned, call for an inclusive resolution
to the St Petersburg Human Rights Ordinance that will
include actual and percieved sexual orientation and
gender identity and gender expression.
All people have the right to safety, dignity and
respect in every area of their lives - both public and
private. This includes the right to fair,
non-threatening employment and employment practices in
order to provide themselves and their families with
adequate shelter, food and resources. Currently,
federal and state laws allow lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgendered people to be discriminated against
in employment, housing and every type of business,
including restaurants, hotels and countless others.
However, this discrimination can be and often is
extended to people who are not lesbian, gay, bisexual
or transgendered. In order to promote and protect a
strong community based upon a celebration of
diversity, it is imperative that the St Petersburg
City Council show compassion and tolerance in creating
a new tradition of unbiased human rights.
The law already extends such protection based on race,
creed, national origin, religion, marital status, sex
and ability. As we move forward into the year 2002,
let us move forward together, as a community of
progress. St Petersburg is a beautiful city that has
much to offer both its residents and visitors who will
feel welcomed in a city that demonstrates its respect
for ALL people. A city whose laws fail to alleviate
the constant threat of job loss, humiliation and
insecurity for a segment of its constituency is a city
who has endorsed discrimination towards those samecitizens.
We urge you to include sexual orientation and gender
identity and gender expression in St Petersburg's
Human Rights Ordinance to honor the rights of its
residential and visitor community. America's values
are based on equality for all people - please do not
dishonor the integrity of those principles in yourvote.
Please include my name with those who stand up for the
respect and safety of all citizens and visitors of StPetersburg, Florida.

well, i have only posted here once before, but i've got really good news to share, i am so happy! my best friend in the whole world just IMed me, i hadn't seen or talked to her since december 7, when we both left school for the holiday break, me for syracuse to sit around and be bored, her for thailand to have SRS, i am smiling so hard my face hurts, in the few short months i have known her, we have become closer than i have ever been with anyone else, tonight she called me her sister, and i love it, i love her, it feels like forever since i have seen her even though it has only been 3 weeks, i can't wait for her to be back at school so i can go see her, if i had the money, i would be on my way to jersey now, she is so great, i miss her so much, she didn't want to talk much about the surgery, she's probably sick of the questions already, but i still asked her a million questions and got out of her that the surgery went very well, but she was so nauseous afterward that she couldn't eat for a week, begged to be sent home early, and is now at home and able to eat and doing fine, when i asked her how she was feeling, she said "like i have a cunt and i can't walk, but it's worth it," i love her, she insisted that i must have more interesting stories to tell than her and that she was dying to hear all the details of three missed weeks of my sexual misadventures, i think i'm gonna write about all these sweet and sad things that we've been through that i can't share with my family or other close friends who don't know she's TS, like we were in the dollar store probably in october, and she saw these pens, those fluorescent colored, plastic ones, and she was so excited and told me, "i remember how bad i wanted these in sixth grade, i begged my mom to buy them for me, but she told me they were only for girls, should i buy them? i don't really need pens," (just looking for me to convince her to buy them like i have to do to get her to buy anything except groceries, lol)and how we spent forever crying together when she e-mailed her mother to tell her she would be getting the surgery and again when her mother sent her a package with bobby pins and a note explaining in broken english that they were so her wig didn't blow off in the winter winds, and christmas shopping with my mother, i couldn't explain why i was so excited to buy her hot oil treatments, but it was because we often talked of her hair, she wore a wig until about two weeks ago, because she was still growing her hair out, her natural hair is very curly and dry, so she asked me to recommend things for her to try because my mom has hair like that, so i did, and i told her she should try hot oil treatments, but by christmas i knew she hadn't, so i bought them for her, i also knew how important her hair was to her, she told me that every morning, she would spend half an hour to an hour trying out new things with her hair before she had to put the wig on to go out and every morning when she had to put it on, she would cry, so i was really excited to give them to her and when she opened them, she, of course, started crying, one of the funnier times we had, was just the week before we left school, i had to keep a certain friend with a tendency to be very annoying away frome her or she said she would kill him and she was sure she could get away with it just because at 20, she was going through menopause, from having to stop the estrogen right before the surgery cuz it's blood thinner, she's made me terrified to hit menopause, luckily i've got many years before then, maybe by then it will be a legal excuse for murder, we have just had so many special times together that i can't share with anyone else, it's a little frustrating, but i'm pretty sure i can handle that tiny frustration to be able to spend time with one of the most amazing people in the world, i am so happy and so looking forward to seeing her in about two and a half weeks, well, i hope i haven't bored you, i just wanted to share the good news with someone