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Doctor: Hello! It’s me, get him! Tell him we’re going out and it’s all on me, except for the money and the driving.
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Dorium: Time catches up with us all, Doctor.
Doctor: Well, it has never laid a glove on me! Hello?
Nurse: Doctor, I’m so sorry. We didn’t know how to contact you. I’m afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?
Doctor: Yeah. Er, yes, yes…er…
Nurse: It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that’s any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days.
Dorium: Doctor? What’s wrong?
Doctor: Nothing, I- just….(sighs)
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A Dad Testifies for His Transgender Teen Daughter
My name is Wayne Maines, I live in Old Town. I have a 13-year-old transgender daughter. In the beginning, I was not onboard with this reality. Like many of you I doubted transgender children could exist, I doubted my wife and I doubted our counselors and doctors. However I never doubted my love for my child. It was only through observing her pain and her suffering and examining my lack of knowledge about these issues did I begin to question my behavior and my conservative values. I learned that the medical standard of care requires parents seek assistance from a panel of experts. We did this and our team of doctors recommended my daughter to live fully as a girl. We cannot turn back now.
When my daughter lost her privileges at school and both children and adults targeted her, I knew I had to change and I have never looked back.
When we moved to Maine, it was clear my daughter was transitioning from male to female with us or without us. She used the girl’s bathroom with no fanfare; she was confident and very social. Her strong personality helped the entire school transition right along side of her. She was proud and secure with herself and when people asked at the young age of six she openly stated that she was a girl trapped in a boy’s body.
The transformation was amazing, but her happiness would not last. Unfortunately the fears of others would destroy everything that our team of doctors, teachers, school counselors, friends and classmates had work so hard to establish.
I know that it is difficult for some of you to understand the needs of transgender children. You only need to spend some time with these kids to see that they are struggling and suffering beyond your imagination only because they are singled out and misunderstood. They are just like your children and grandchildren; they have the same hopes and the same dreams.
In the fifth grade because of significant negative exposure we had to take drastic measures to protect her from harm, including splitting our family up to go in hiding and we are not the only family that has had to do so. When she was told she could no longer use the appropriate bathroom her confidence and self-esteem took a major hit. Prior to this my daughter often said, “Dad being transgender is no big deal, my friends and I have it under control.” I was very proud of her. It was only when adults became involved with their unfounded fears that her world would be turned upside down. “She came to me crying and asked, “Daddy what did I do wrong? Daddy please fix this?” That is what dads do — we fix things. I had to break her heart and say, “You have not done anything wrong sweetie, but Mommy and I do not know how to fix this, but we will try.”
Continuing to single these kids out is not necessary. Having the opportunity to use the bathrooms of their true gender is essential for these kids’ well being. This bill places transgender children in a position of doom and hopelessness. This bill tells my daughter that she does not have the same rights as her classmates and reinforces her opinion that she has no future. Help me give her the future she deserves. Do not pass this bill.
- Wayne Maines, in a testimony against Maine’s proposed bill which would allow the operator of a restroom or shower facility to decide who can use which gender’s restroom based upon “biological sex.”
Originally posted by Joanne Herman at Huffington Post (follow link to read her commentary on this amazing testimony)
This is an important, moving piece. I suggest everyone reads it.
This is love. This is understanding.
That bill is not.
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wandering stars: Why I'm Not Around: Cancer Sucks and Should Die In A Pit of Molten Lava, Without Passing Go or Collecting $200
I am kind of lying low right now because I can’t really deal with, uh, anything. Reading some stuff, but not really commenting or engaging, and not reading a lot of stuff. So if you’re wondering why I’m not talking about/responding to something, that is why. I basically am spending all my time in…
I just wanted to say that I’m really, really sorry, mel. I’m sending good thoughts to all of you, and I’m around if you decide that you’d like to talk.
:( :( I second what Cara says.
Oh no… Pinky has passed away :( I was really pulling for the little guy.
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Delta Loses 8-Week-Old Puppy -- Sends Dog to California not Maine
Some choice quotes: Instead, he ended up in San Jose, Calif., a fact O’Brien wasn’t able to get from Delta until the next day. … he was stuck in his crate for nearly 24 hours … Delta has been unable to answer whether he was fed, watered, walked or kept company for any portion of the ordeal.
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I cannot imagine the anguish this man is going through.
Not that he’s the most important character in the story, but … I don’t know how I’d make it through this. How terribly sad.
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Wash. Times calls for discrimination against transgender people
The April 23 Washington Times editorial is titled, “Discrimination is necessary,” and states in a subtitle that, “Subjecting kids to weirdos undermines standards of decency”
WOW.
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Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold’s care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.
Ignoring Clay’s significant role in Harold’s life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold’s “roommate.” The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold’s bank accounts to pay for his care.
What happened next is even more chilling: without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold’s possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold’s lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.
Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property. The only memento Clay has is a photo album that Harold painstakingly put together for Clay during the last three months of his life.
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NCLR (via Towleroad) (via matthewgallaway)
This happened in our town? Gay-friendly, bastion of liberals, Sonoma County? Yep, this kind of heinous discrimination can happen anywhere.
(via falsematurity)
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Massey Energy told employees that if they miss work to attend the funerals they would be fired, workers said. A Massey worker, who did not give his name because he is afraid of losing his job, said that his coworkers were outraged that they were not given time off to mourn their friends and brothers.
The WSWS spoke to workers and relatives outside a local market. Chuck Smith, an unemployed miner with seven years work underground, said Massey’s decision to force miners to work during the funerals was a calculated move. “What would it look like if a bunch of people wearing Massey uniforms showed up to the funeral yelling ‘damn Massey?’”
Smith said another factor was Massey’s profits. “Is a lump of coal that valuable to you that you can’t even give the miners a day off to mourn their friends?” he asked.
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Families begin to bury 29 killed in West Virginia explosion (via ihatethismess) (via apsies)
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Someone I work with just sent my private email address to someone who threatened me at work.
I’m deleting this tumblr account now for my own protection.
reblogged so everyone knows why Anna is going away.
(via annaoverseas-deactivated2010041)
There is not enough D: in the world, truly. I’m so sorry, Anna.
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Did Mississippi school stage a fake prom for Constance McMillen and her girlfriend?
The RAGE. I CANNOT EVEN. NO SPEAK NOTHING EDIJFRIKHJGOIRHIUHGIUHR
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