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• Share your experiences dealing with, encountering, or witnessing discrimination against LGBT persons.
- The fact that this is your first point says a lot. Personally, I have witnessed 0.

• What is your country/society's attitudes towards the LGBT community?
- If you don't attend at least 3 pride rallies per minute you are evil.

• What are your opinions on Gay Marriage? Is it legal in your country?
- No opinions. I support the idea of domestic partnerships, including those outside of romantic or sexual relationships.

• What is something you wish society could understand about LGBT?
- The scientific research.

• Do you believe that homosexuality is caused by genetics or environmental factors?
- Mostly environmental factors, but like everything genetics controls susceptibility to those factors

• Is there an adequate representation of LGBT in the media (including gaming industries)?
- The lens practicality and merit renders this question a non-question.

• What're your views on gender-neutral bathrooms?
- Who cares?

• What're your current opinions on the human rights violations against LGBT persons around the world (such as the death penalty for homosexuality)?
- Liberalism demands we respect other cultures... or else.

25-Dec-2017 03:39:08

Jesdue
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Hey, so I'm a transwoman. I came out and started transition in 2010, when I was seventeen. But it was really hard for me to get doctors to let me intervene medically (hormone replacement therapy) because I also have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. For a long time they just assumed my gender identity was a delusion. But eventually I found a therapist who actually knew stuff about transition and I got the hormones.

I wrote a memoir about it. I think it's so important for us to tell our stories!

16-Jan-2018 17:33:50

Chief Elf
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Jesdue said :
Hey, so I'm a transwoman. I came out and started transition in 2010, when I was seventeen. But it was really hard for me to get doctors to let me intervene medically (hormone replacement therapy) because I also have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. For a long time they just assumed my gender identity was a delusion. But eventually I found a therapist who actually knew stuff about transition and I got the hormones.

I wrote a memoir about it. I think it's so important for us to tell our stories!

Thank you so much for sharing, Jes, that's very brave!

That must have been so difficult to be prevented from something so medically important. I plan on studying my Masters on Clinical Psychology once I graduate from my Bachelor's, and I hope to be an allied (mental) health professional that effects positive change. I'm so glad you found the right therapist who was able to help you.

I hope I'll be able to read your memoir some day!
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14-Mar-2018 12:06:28

blues
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I have a friend who met a girl on a night out who turned out to be trans, she didn't tell him till they got back to hers. I feel like a lot of people who had ran pretty quick at this point or flamed abuse for not saying something sooner. They just had a few more drinks and talked about stuff, he said she was pretty cool and he'd not encountered anyone trans before since he grew up in Poland and stuffs a lot more different there.

*spoiler* they didn't have sex

14-Mar-2018 12:13:23

Haukur

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Jeremy Cheng said :

• Do you believe that homosexuality is caused by genetics or environmental factors?
It's a conscious choice. Gay people choose to be gay.



Please elaborate on how it is a choice? I knew from a very young age that I was gay. It is not something that you wake up one day and decide, oh I am gay or oh I am straight, or oh I am bisexual. It is something that you just know with in yourself.

Before it became more accepted, it was hard living behind a mask. Infact this poem by
Jess Jayne pretty much sums up what we had to go through, and what many of us still have to go through.

Living Behind A Mask
by Jess Jayne

I'm living behind a mask
I'm hiding who I am
I smile on the outside when i'm frowing inside
I laugh on the outside when i'm crying inside
I have a good day on the outside when i'm dying on the inside

I'm living behind a mask
As i'm full of so much pain
I can't let my friends see all the pain i'm going through

I'm living behind a mask
With too much deppreson to take
Too much pain in this life

I'm living behind a mask
I'm hiding from everyone who cares
I'm runing from myself

But in this room on my own
I can take of this mask
And let all this pain out

So when i'm on my own
I cry a thousand tears
I die a thousand times

I'm living behind a mask
But not when i'm on my own Don't ever think the reason I am peaceful is because I do not know how to be violent.
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14-Mar-2018 12:41:59 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2018 14:14:20 by Haukur

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Haukur said :
Please elaborate on how it is a choice? I knew from a very young age that I was gay. It is not something that you wake up one day and decide, oh I am gay or oh I am straight, or oh I am bisexual. It is something that you know from a young age. I agree. If one could choose their sexuality then there would never have been any LGBT people in the past period, due to the stigma carried over history. And nowadays everyone would be chopping and changing whenever they choose; and I don't mean genderfluids, I mean literally everyone, at the drop of a hat, when they break up with a partner, flicking a switch just to rebel against a family or community, or even do it for attention. The sad thing is that I knew this kid at school who told everyone he was gay for attention; it's sad because the stigma suffered by LGBT is a genuine problem that isn't to be trifled with, and to do so only exacerbates it. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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14-Mar-2018 13:13:37

blues
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Uh i wouldn't say 'you know' you're gay from a young age, everyone has different experiences, making that assumption is a cause of why people are sexually confused. Everyone finds their sexuality in their own time.

You might have personally found you were gay when you were young, but someone else might not realise they're gay till later in their life. assumptions like this just confuse people more.

'oh i can't be gay cause i wasn't sure i was gay when i was younger'

14-Mar-2018 14:01:56

Haukur

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Blues allow me to clarify, I was not saying every one knows at a young age. I knew at a young age that I was gay. Many go their entire lives, living in the closet so to speak, or unsure of themselves.

There are those that come out of the closet later in life, myself even though I knew I was gay had to stay in the closet for a long while. For at the time, coming out especialy when you was in the military, was grounds for a dishonorable discharge and a stint in a federal military prison such as Fort Leavenworth. Don't ever think the reason I am peaceful is because I do not know how to be violent.
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14-Mar-2018 14:09:51

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