I have a dream too...

Tomorrow we celebrate the birthday of a great man. A brave man who didn't let discrimination stop him from pursuing his dream. Many of us in our community have felt a kinship to him and those like him that fought in the civil rights battles of the not so distant history of our country. I too have felt this, but when you look back hard at things their struggle was so much harder than ours, and while some of us like myself can escape the discrimination against our group, they couldn't hide the color of their skin like we can hide our birth gender.

I don't have to deal with everybody immediately knowing my situation. I can blend in with the crowd, something impossible for a person of color in the South of the 1950's. Yes there is allot of discrimination going on in our community, but it is mainly to our poc members. These poor souls don't have the paths open to them that seem to be there for most white tranny folk. You don't see many white tranny hookers living on the streets, just as you don't see allot of success stories about poc trannies transitioning and getting along in the world as most white folk do.

The problem is economic and social too. These folks don't have the money to traverse the wasteland any other way, and society has such a bugaboo up it's ass over people messing with their gender. This is where my dream comes in.

I have a dream that someday they can tell by a simple test while we are young if you are gender conflicted and do something about it then. That it doesn't matter what you used to be, but what you are today.

I have a dream that people one day will be able to express themselves freely in public, and not have to do it in some seedy backstreet drug infested bar that breeds despair and tragedy. Where same sex couples can hold hands as they stroll down the street as easily in Huntstown, Alabama as they do in Proveincetown. Were they can share a simple loving short kiss in public. ( no tongues guys ok, dudes kissing is hard enough on me as it is)

I have a dream that these conservative religious folks will stop worrying condemning everybody while trying to save to world, and just worry about their own fucking shit. Worry about little Johny who's smoking a joint after Bible study, or little Julie who's losing her virginity to that good boy from a good family down the road. Study your freaking bibles and read just the following teaching of Jesus "Let he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone." Sorry non-Christians I don't know your books so trust me on this on Jesus knew his shit, even if you don't believe he was God he was wise. If you all can worry about your own house and leave everyone else alone it would be a kinder world, and there would be less poverty, violence and dispare. If you didn't force folks to the shadows they can grow to their full potential and not fulfill the prophecy you have paved for them.

I'm done, time to get off my soapbox, and get on with my life. I hope I made you think and you can think of your own dreams to make the world a better place. For if we fail to dream of how good it could be we start to settle for the way we don't want it to be.

Love to all, take care.