Tue Shevat 14, 5775 18:19PDT
Dear 'powers-that-be' :
re: Spokane and attacks against Transgenders and Gays and anybody 'different' :
I grew up here in Spokane County; went to school here, graduated from U-High in Spokane (before there was such a thing as "the city of Spokane Valley," and live in Spokane (within city-limits today). I've never hid in a closet-of-deception, cowering behind a woman, telling her and kids a bunch of lies, and then, when caught, claimed to be a "victim of my sexuality." Those are not Gay-issues. But we are all stereotyped as being that way, and all those involved in that behavior, their cheating and lieing, stirs-up alot of anger against us. But we aren't doing those things. We never did those things. We were never involved in any of it. Those are not Gay-issues. Those are bi-sexual issues. And even if those involved in it, 'settle' in some type of 'same-sex relationship,' even if they start calling themselves 'gay,' they are not. They are still Bi-sexuals, just in a different 'stage' of a typical Bi-sexual lifestyle.
They need their own 'help,' their own 'services,' their own 'outreach' their own 'protections.' It isn't us. And rest assured, all the cheating and lieing they told 'straights,' were used to deceive we Gays, too.
Same with Lesbians. There are more and more Bi-sexual woman, who divorced from a traditional family environment, then got involved in a same-sex relationship, and now claim they are the 'voice and face of what a 'lesbian' is. That is false. They are not. They are still Bi-sexuals, just in a different 'stage' of the typical Bi-sexual Lifestyle. It may be long-lasting. It may not.
I mention all that, because Transgender people have their own issues, their own needs, their own unique sets of problems, their own cries of 'help,' which is not us (we Gays) either. I don't pretend to understand what a Transgender is going through, anymore than that of a Bi-sexual man with children claiming to be a "victim of his sexuality." To me, that man, after his closet-of-deception is stripped-away, after he (as it is said) "comes out," isn't "proving integrity," at all; he's just proving he never had any. Perhaps that's part of his/her 'healing,' I don't know. They must define that themselves, between each individual and all the people they cheated and lied to. I've never been in a sexual-relationship with a woman, so I cannot be expected to "identify" with a Bi-sexual's issues.
Transgendered people are all unique, and have their own individual existence. The 'big argument' people make against them, is that the Transgender "hated themselves as one gender, therefore trained themselves to find "liberation" by becoming (wishing or choosing to be) another gender." The whole world is grappling with that. But one thing is certain, these are unique individuals with his/her own sets of unique problems. Nobody is "walking in their shoes" except themselves. It doesn't matter if someone thinks they are "choosing" or "manufacturing escapes or excuses", or think they were "born in the wrong body" or whatever, the fact remains that these individuals are not "assimilating" into society, are not getting a "fair shake" in some manner or another and they themselves struggle to define it. That in itself is a "born-in to" situation, their "gender-dysphoria". Like it or not.
We as a city and a society, especially the Gay and Lesbian community, are ill-equipped to handle it. We don't need a million-dollar "study" to "job-security" a future-generation of college-grads, professionally-unionizing, "donating-back" to a particular political-entity (party) of the Legislative Branch for more, more, more money, resources, perks, benefits and raises, annually forevermore, at taxpayer-expense. We don't need any more of it, and Spokane taxpayers can ill-afford it.
This society is producing many positive symptoms which are mis-diagnosed merely to become a political entities' "donation-base" of voters (organized vote-buying at the expense of all the other taxpayers). That equation is old and tired and needs be retired. It, as a social-paradigm, has never solved anything, or made anything "more efficient" nor "less expensive," only become an ever-growing bureaucracy, the 'target' of Credential Sales by predatory-educational institutions.
That said, we need to LISTEN. It's really SIMPLE. WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN. We need to put aside the assumptions and all the pre-programmed soundbites and "reasonable-sounding" platitudes, and just listen. We don't know how to 'help' these individuals and their unique problem-sets; they need to tell us, and we are not listening, instead, our attention is constantly mis-directed to Credential Sales, politicos, and religious diatribes (and they've had their say, over and over and over, eh?)
This latest attack against a Transgender, who is a "stranger in a strange land," and born-in to it no matter how one views it, isn't being solved by blaming everybody in the city or Police Department or anything else as being "insensitive" and "hateful." But "slow to respond" to UNIQUE demographical issues? Yes. Guilty-as-charged. Over and over, because profiting from atop the rubble, misery, confusion and grief is just "job-security" to institutions that sell credentials, to become a "union job" that collects "donations" to a political-entity (party) of the Legislative Branch for more, more, more, claiming how everything is now, "new, improved, cleaner, better, brighter, whiter, super-duper more-efficient, less-expensive," and honestly, nothing has ever been made less-expensive by it. Ever.
We don't need another "statewide initiative," and we don't need another "national roundtable event" or "worldwide super-analysis." We can figure it out. Together. We just forgot to shut up and listen, and I have 15 dead friends that I grew-up with right here that proves it.
Kind regards, always,
CLAYTON LEON WINTON citizen#C03183395
1818 E. 16th Ave., Spokane, WA 99203
(end: Tue Shevat 14, 5775 19:07PDT)
Dear 'powers-that-be' :
re: Spokane and attacks against Transgenders and Gays and anybody 'different' :
I grew up here in Spokane County; went to school here, graduated from U-High in Spokane (before there was such a thing as "the city of Spokane Valley," and live in Spokane (within city-limits today). I've never hid in a closet-of-deception, cowering behind a woman, telling her and kids a bunch of lies, and then, when caught, claimed to be a "victim of my sexuality." Those are not Gay-issues. But we are all stereotyped as being that way, and all those involved in that behavior, their cheating and lieing, stirs-up alot of anger against us. But we aren't doing those things. We never did those things. We were never involved in any of it. Those are not Gay-issues. Those are bi-sexual issues. And even if those involved in it, 'settle' in some type of 'same-sex relationship,' even if they start calling themselves 'gay,' they are not. They are still Bi-sexuals, just in a different 'stage' of a typical Bi-sexual lifestyle.
They need their own 'help,' their own 'services,' their own 'outreach' their own 'protections.' It isn't us. And rest assured, all the cheating and lieing they told 'straights,' were used to deceive we Gays, too.
Same with Lesbians. There are more and more Bi-sexual woman, who divorced from a traditional family environment, then got involved in a same-sex relationship, and now claim they are the 'voice and face of what a 'lesbian' is. That is false. They are not. They are still Bi-sexuals, just in a different 'stage' of the typical Bi-sexual Lifestyle. It may be long-lasting. It may not.
I mention all that, because Transgender people have their own issues, their own needs, their own unique sets of problems, their own cries of 'help,' which is not us (we Gays) either. I don't pretend to understand what a Transgender is going through, anymore than that of a Bi-sexual man with children claiming to be a "victim of his sexuality." To me, that man, after his closet-of-deception is stripped-away, after he (as it is said) "comes out," isn't "proving integrity," at all; he's just proving he never had any. Perhaps that's part of his/her 'healing,' I don't know. They must define that themselves, between each individual and all the people they cheated and lied to. I've never been in a sexual-relationship with a woman, so I cannot be expected to "identify" with a Bi-sexual's issues.
Transgendered people are all unique, and have their own individual existence. The 'big argument' people make against them, is that the Transgender "hated themselves as one gender, therefore trained themselves to find "liberation" by becoming (wishing or choosing to be) another gender." The whole world is grappling with that. But one thing is certain, these are unique individuals with his/her own sets of unique problems. Nobody is "walking in their shoes" except themselves. It doesn't matter if someone thinks they are "choosing" or "manufacturing escapes or excuses", or think they were "born in the wrong body" or whatever, the fact remains that these individuals are not "assimilating" into society, are not getting a "fair shake" in some manner or another and they themselves struggle to define it. That in itself is a "born-in to" situation, their "gender-dysphoria". Like it or not.
We as a city and a society, especially the Gay and Lesbian community, are ill-equipped to handle it. We don't need a million-dollar "study" to "job-security" a future-generation of college-grads, professionally-unionizing, "donating-back" to a particular political-entity (party) of the Legislative Branch for more, more, more money, resources, perks, benefits and raises, annually forevermore, at taxpayer-expense. We don't need any more of it, and Spokane taxpayers can ill-afford it.
This society is producing many positive symptoms which are mis-diagnosed merely to become a political entities' "donation-base" of voters (organized vote-buying at the expense of all the other taxpayers). That equation is old and tired and needs be retired. It, as a social-paradigm, has never solved anything, or made anything "more efficient" nor "less expensive," only become an ever-growing bureaucracy, the 'target' of Credential Sales by predatory-educational institutions.
That said, we need to LISTEN. It's really SIMPLE. WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN. We need to put aside the assumptions and all the pre-programmed soundbites and "reasonable-sounding" platitudes, and just listen. We don't know how to 'help' these individuals and their unique problem-sets; they need to tell us, and we are not listening, instead, our attention is constantly mis-directed to Credential Sales, politicos, and religious diatribes (and they've had their say, over and over and over, eh?)
This latest attack against a Transgender, who is a "stranger in a strange land," and born-in to it no matter how one views it, isn't being solved by blaming everybody in the city or Police Department or anything else as being "insensitive" and "hateful." But "slow to respond" to UNIQUE demographical issues? Yes. Guilty-as-charged. Over and over, because profiting from atop the rubble, misery, confusion and grief is just "job-security" to institutions that sell credentials, to become a "union job" that collects "donations" to a political-entity (party) of the Legislative Branch for more, more, more, claiming how everything is now, "new, improved, cleaner, better, brighter, whiter, super-duper more-efficient, less-expensive," and honestly, nothing has ever been made less-expensive by it. Ever.
We don't need another "statewide initiative," and we don't need another "national roundtable event" or "worldwide super-analysis." We can figure it out. Together. We just forgot to shut up and listen, and I have 15 dead friends that I grew-up with right here that proves it.
Kind regards, always,
CLAYTON LEON WINTON citizen#C03183395
1818 E. 16th Ave., Spokane, WA 99203
(end: Tue Shevat 14, 5775 19:07PDT)
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