Subversive Number 12 - Letters to the Editor

I've recently realized that I am a transgendered person. It's been a real discovery for me. I finally saw the rainbow that is the beauty of humanity, in all its forms. And saw that my happiness, here and now, has nothing whatsoever to how I'm doing financially or job-wise. It has to do with my tolerance for the Robyn side of me, and finally letting her free! You see, for a long time, I had tolerance on the outside, but almost no tolerance for what is inside of me. But that doesn't work, especially for me. It's just another way of denying the truth. Sometimes truth hurts, but it's always better to go with truth than with falsehood. Everyone has to find their own truth; my truth won't work for anyone else, though it has some similarities to others. I think I've found out why truth hurts so much. Because, (at least to me), truth is beauty, in its purest form. Something we're not used to seeing that much these days. I don't have any real answers after this revelation. Mostly just more questions. But finding the rainbow showed me so much. And as I proceed with negotiations with myself, so that both genders can be expressed in me, I hope that my thoughts will help others to find their own rainbows. For there is one for every one of us.. We just have to look for it.

P.S. If there is space for this in the next Subversive, I would appreciate its inclusion there. Also, from this experience, I've come up with a term for those in the gender community, and those that care and support us all. RP. What does it stand for? Rainbow Person, or Rainbow People in the plural. Because, when you can see one rainbow, you can see them all... :-)

Thanks for your letter. I have placed it in Subversive #12, which will be uploaded to the New Files area of the GLCF about mid-month. The observations we can make along our personal journeys of self-discovery have meaning for others who are just a step behind. That's why we need new voices every step of the way; so that as each individual advances, someone new steps into the place they vacated to carry on that voice. In this way, a chorus of understanding is created out of "musical chairs": each individual voice adopting a new melody through growth while the harmony of the chorus never changes.

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