Davyd (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} davyd) wrote,@ 2008-11-20 18:53:00 |
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call it what it is: a lynching
We live in a diverse world, every person is unique. Sometimes it's visible to the eye and sometimes it's unseen or kept hidden away. No person should be persecuted, by society or by the state, because of their sex, race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality.
In the last year, at least 29 people have been violently murdered for daring to express a gender identity that didn't conform with someone else's idea of what makes up boys and girls. Who knows how many more homocides, how many bashings, how many assults and how much abuse went on. Much of it is never reported, or the reports are ignored.
Today is a day of remembrance. Remember that even when you can't see it, discrimination still exists, even in places like Australia. Realise that the human brain is a complex machine, more complex than XX and XY, and because of some people's limited world view, it has cost other people their lives.
We live in a diverse world, every person is unique. Sometimes it's visible to the eye and sometimes it's unseen or kept hidden away. No person should be persecuted, by society or by the state, because of their sex, race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality.
In the last year, at least 29 people have been violently murdered for daring to express a gender identity that didn't conform with someone else's idea of what makes up boys and girls. Who knows how many more homocides, how many bashings, how many assults and how much abuse went on. Much of it is never reported, or the reports are ignored.
Today is a day of remembrance. Remember that even when you can't see it, discrimination still exists, even in places like Australia. Realise that the human brain is a complex machine, more complex than XX and XY, and because of some people's limited world view, it has cost other people their lives.
