Transgender Day Of Remembrance

I found an interesting article on TDOR at the San Francisco Sentinel from a few years ago. Also below are a few videos made for TDOR.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.   Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela

Not everyone is meant to make a difference; but for me, the choice to live an ordinary life is no longer an option. Spider Man

Everyone dies but not everyone lives. Live your life in a way that makes you happy and proud. It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom   Anais Nin

I ask myself, in mercy, or in common sense, if we cannot alter the conviction to fit the body, should we not in certain circumstances, alter the body to fit the conviction? Dr. Harry Benjamin, M.D.

This is an excerpt I though I’d appropriate for this post: it’s something I remember from my early esoteric readings which I managed to find again on the internet:

The Church-Father, St. Clement, said that Jesus, once having been asked when his ‘kingdom’ would come, replied: “It will come when two and two make one; when the outside is like the inside; and when there is neither male nor female.”

It is one of the Theosophical teachings that the present state of the human race as divided into men and women, into beings of opposite sexes, was not always thus in the past, nor will it be thus in the far distant aeons of the future. The time is coming when both ‘men’ and ‘women’ as such shall have disappeared; and there then will be neither ‘men’ nor ‘women,’ but human beings only, in those distant aeons of the future; for sex, like many other attributes of the human entity, is a transitory evolutionary stage through which the race is now passing; once sex did not exist; at present the sexual state exists; in the future it will again not exist, for the human race shall then have evolved out of this manner of expressing the positive and negative qualities of the psychological economy of the human being. When this shall have taken place — when sex shall have disappeared, when there shall no longer be either male or female, but simply human beings dwelling in bodies of luminous light — then the inner god, the inner Christos, the Christ Immanent, or as the Oriental mystics of High Asia express it, the Dhyani-Bodhisattva, will be able to express itself and its powers and faculties with relative perfection; and when all human beings shall thus be ‘Christs’ in greater or less degree, then the ‘Kingdom of Christ,’ of which the early Christian Mystics spoke and wrote so much, shall have arrived.The Esoteric Tradition by G. de Purucker  Ch. 2