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[nodesignation.livejournal.com]

My mom wrote an article on being the parent of a transperson. I'm very proud of her and wanted to share it all with you. You can check it out here

I'm very happy with how it turned out. I ended up okay-ing the "transgender son" bit, as I figure if that's the only thing wrong with it then it's not that bad. Despite how it looks in the article, she's actually been struggling a lot with and she originally wanted to use male pronouns for me in the article. I'm glad I talked her out of that, and I don't mind being called her son so much as long as she says "She is my son." Anyway, the editors decided to pick that part out for the headline. Nonetheless, I'm pretty proud of my mom at this moment.

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[aubreycolors.livejournal.com]

I'm 33, MTF.

The news?
This weekend I came out to my parents.

Lots of tears.
It was EXTREMELY hard to eventually come to this because they are not exactly the most liberal of parents. They are Catholic, conservative, republican, and old enough to be the generation BEFORE baby-boomers.

More of the story later, but I just wanted to share this with the community :)

So much pressure is lifted off of my shoulders.

a non-discrimination bill

[quaere.livejournal.com]

A shy first post; feel free to remove if it's not appropriate. xposted a bit.

Current word is that around 2/28 or 3/1, the Vermont House of Representatives will be voting on H.865, which would add gender identity and expression to the list of protected classes in various state statutes. This being Vermont and me being idealistic, I feel like there's a pretty reasonable chance that it will pass - but if there are any Vermonters in this group that didn't know about it, it can't help to send a few e-mails.

Here's the e-mail that I sent to my representatives. (I did not specifically mention the fact that I'm trans-questioning, because they know me from the context of a Girl Scout internship - not sure if I want to deal with the weirdness of that.)

( Regarding H.865 )