Nobody Has The Right To Deny You Power Over Your Body Or Your Future

'Nobody has the right to deny you power over your body or your future'   Sandra Fluke

But it seems like when it comes to girls like us, a diverse group of transphobes seem to think they have the ability to do precisely that.   Whether it's the trans exterminationalist rad fems, the conservative elements of the Catholic Church and other faiths, elements of the gay and lesbian community or right wing legislators, they are united in their zeal to deny transpeople the power over their bodies and their futures. 

Article 3 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.   When it comes to transpeople, that right to life, liberty and security of person has been under sustained attack.

And it's past time we transpeople in the United States and around the world fight for our human right to exist/ Because for us to have a future, we must change our bodies as the first step towards us beginning to acquire the confidence, strength and will to do what is necessary to have positive outcomes in our lives..

So what is it about the simple demand of transpeople wanting to peacefully live our lives just like anyone else on the planet that scares the crap out of people?   Is it because we strive to be our authentic selves and in that gender metamorphosis it forces us to sort out issues that most cispeople refuse to contemplate much less deal with over their lifetimes?

Is it because it forces cis people who uncomfortable in their own skins to think about gender identity characteristics that people once thought were immutable?  Are cis people bothered by the realization that a little more or less testosterone in vitro would have them either walking in our trans shoes or on the other side of the gender divide in a body opposite the one they arrived out of the birth canal with? 

Or is it because transpeople make cisfolks realize that the dividing line between masculine and feminine is not the rigid Berlin Wall binary many people envision it as but a thin line segment that we all fall along somewhere along?  

All we transpeople is around the world want is to proudly live our lives in our various nations just like any other cis person.  We want to get a good education, good jobs, be the best people we can be, have the ability to marry the people we find are worthy of our love, start families, and do our part to build up the nations we inhabit.  We also want to live our lives free from fear, discrimination and transphobic bigotry as we do so.

Owning our bodies and the power to determine what happens to them is a major step towards making the other things happen.  The international fight to make trans human rights a reality puts us on the correct side of the arc of the moral universe that is always bending toward justice.

Even if it seems that inevitable day is slow in arriving at times for transpeople.

This is the second decade of the 21st century.  The medical means to help transpeople because the men and women they were born to be exists. The science is on our side, the laws are catching up to where we've always been.

The only people that should ever have the power over our trans bodies is us.   We trans people are becoming more cognizant that control of our bodies and what to do with them is not only worth fighting for, it's imperative we do so if we're going to have futures to look forward to.

And it's a fight that we must win for the sake of our trans younglings following in our footsteps.