There’s a scene at the end of “will and harper” that I can’t get out of my head. I mentioned the way documentary on the way to the street in the area where Ferrell was restored to his old “Saturday night Live” Buddy Harper Steele as a Buddon woman. Both zigzag through many red states, as ferrell, star of “anchor man,” “Talladaga nights” and “elf,,“His quirky self, asking awkward questions (” how are your boobs? “), Donating cartoonish disguises and prompts series of public stunts, other backfire.
Happiness falls when Harper drives them to the trona, Calif., A small town in the Mojave desert in the desert in Mojave, Southwest of Death Valley. She runs up to a dilapidated house with boarded-up windows in a slight dirt dirty – sadly even looking at all. He purchased the area six or seven years before, wanted to stay away from the world after a period of abstinence in uncertainty, regret and suicidal. “I just hated myself,” he said, and broke the cry. “Looks like a dragon.”
He carried him inside. The house was disabled; There is broken furniture, graffiti-filled walls, a naked mattress stained and hung up with whom. They are off a small balcony looking at an empty streets with telegraph poles, the desert horizon in the distance. “I will be a woman here,” Harper tells the likes. “That’s the plan. … I’m just gonna go to the curtains and walk around the house and it’s safe space.”
It’s great to be deserted: a winner who wins the comedy writer and producer, ready to lose everything, to become a woman alone with nothing. But the best thing in the scene was Ferrell’s face, struck by paths. He moved from curiosity to certainty. The transfer is true. He got it.
Transgender and Cisgender people are the same way: we’re more easily dead than living outside our gender. The difference is that the CIS people do not have to face that situation, while each trans single has.
Last century, Mainstream America began to catch the same thing about gay people: they were real. They were born so. Homosexuality is not a disease that people get straight. LGBT decades are required to organize and fight and (greater) die to go to that place. It is also necessary that most of the direct Americans know that gay recognition is like them, to improve the marriage method.
Transgender children are both true, even if conservative politicians and Christian nationalist groups are campaigned as well as convincing us if not. Presumably, many children undergo stages of experimenting with the gender expression. The way parents know one of their children is trans by observing if their transition prompt is consistent, consistent and consistent. Consistent means you’re watching, persisted means you listen and continues means you remain patient. These three things can be clear.
There’s something else. All children’s parents have experienced a chance similar to Ferrell’s in the desert: they witness someone whose life is in line, a person they need to protect.
Lawmakers to legislators are red, without knowing about medicine, we want to think that “no harm” means people to care for medicine, they may be able to “permanently” decisions before they are adults. Parents of children children, and every major American medical organization, knowing that “no harm” means preventing the gender disaster. They also want to prevent suicide, and the Night for compelling to live exile from your identity, which is a living death. Even Ron Burgundy, the man anchor, knowing that.
The Supreme Court Skrmetti decision Provide on June 18, supporting a Tennessee law prohibit health care for minors, resembled completion. Reasonableness have something to decide: Clear target of a law do people deserve raised examinations are applied against protected groups or sexuality?
The Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for a majority conservative, arguing that the Tennessee law is not good treatment for medical treatment, and gendertity fromsity from different treatment conditions. “It’s like saying that we didn’t focus on diabetics, their insulin. The Kidsenders of Tennessee, however, have the interests of the chilling to appreciate their sex.” The state has a good measure, claims that transgender people are not eligible as one You are a protective group because a) We do not suffer a history of legal discrimination.
Skrmetti’s decision will lead as discriminated, fatal and often false to its claims. After the Trump administration was declared that people who did not change the test of what was not moving), the court now sets an introduction and a tolerance structure for the states they do.
In his tyranny, justice Sonia Solomayor who could not have been described transgenders a group, then clipped criminals to people who searched for further evidence of De Jure Discrimination against individual transgenders, “he added,” need to meet more than now. The Federal government, for example, began to expel transgender crew from the military and threatened to quit funds from schools and non-support transgender. “
Under New York law I can be arrested for cross-dressing in the 1980s, and immediately I lost my work as a public school teacher. One generation earlier, in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, police often walked to the cafeteria in Gene Compton, and randomly arrested customers for “woman seeing.” Amanda St. Jaymes is one of them. He described repeated arrests, stripped and locked for refusing to issue his head. “A girl (spent) 60 days in the hole because he doesn’t let them cut his hair. That’s why it’s been a while ago.”
In “screaming in Queens: The Riot of Compton’s Cafeteria” (another movie fitting), historian Susan Sterker Quoricance in the United States police history. “It started with a police raid on a warm night in 1966 (three years before boarding). If he had a chaosing coffee, and the tables were turned off, the plate glasses were stuck. They were shipped and punched and beaten the police on their heavy purses. “The police retreated outside to ask for backup. But the customers of the cafeteria, maybe sixty to all, poured into broken doors and windows and continued to fight “- with fearless temperament.
“There is so much happiness after it happens,” says St. Jaymes. “Many (US) went to jail, but there was a lot of ‘I would never give an injury. This should be the transgender identification” before we had the word “transgender” – as now.
“I just asked you as my friends to stand for me,” Harper Steele’s letter to his exit letter. I made the same appeal here, and I appreciated everything that stands for people, as well as people who have one day. We are real. We need you.
Diana Goetsch is a poet, essay and journalist and author of the memoir, “This body I wore.”
