National Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time to remember those who have been murdered and/or suffered harm because of Gender Identity. It is time for each of us to look into our own hearts and try to overcome the ignorance, intolerance and hatred that has been fed to us by a society that has had difficulty recognizing that we are all different and do not fit into neat little categories of male and female and the roles that society has demanded from them.
With the exclusion of Transgender from the Employment Non Discrimination act, we all need to double our efforts to make sure that in the future our Transgender friends and family members are not left behind in our push for equality. We can not allow the hatred and discrimination that in the past was leveled at the entire LGBT community now be transferred to the Transgender community as the surviving scapegoat for those who have to have someone to hate and to whom they can feel superior.
Gender indentity, gender roles, sexual orientation, diverstiy and our right to determine our own relationships are all intertwined. None of us will see freedom and equality until we all have the right to live as God intended. He did not create us all the same. He created us all different and unique. The real test of His love is to embrace, respect and celebrate our differences.
Unite in diversity!
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