I want to share in part an email that I received from a medical doctor from the Student Health Services who attended the seminar that I gave at UConn last week...
I wanted to write and thank you so much for your presentation at CMHS at UCONN last Thursday. When I picked up my daughters (ages 12 and 13) after school that I day I told them I had just heard from one of the bravest people I’d ever met. We then had a very long conversation about what it means to not identify with your birth gender and the challenges and discrimination faced by the Trans-Gender community. I’m sure that you don’t remember me but actually rode up in the elevator together. You were facing the elevator key pad (coping mechanism?) and I was too preoccupied to say “Hello,” for which truly regret the missed opportunity of meeting you.I firmly believe that we bring about change through education, by getting out there and to begin a discussion with each other is the only way that we can make the world a better place for all of us.
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