Rachel Bryk, she is not the first or last but this has to stop.
Zyphun
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“Guess I am dead. Killed myself. Sorry.”
Rachel Bryk killed herself last week. She was 23 years old. Before her suicide she had been repeatedly bullied on-line for being transgender. I read about her death this weekend, but it was in reading a Washington Post article this morning that I felt a rage build in me.
I like so many LGBT people was bullied when I was a kid. I got it for being fat and being a 'f*g' and being girly. It took me over twenty years after high school to finally find a sense of selfworth and happiness. I see stories like Rachel's and I just can't stand it. We as a community need to find a way to better reach out and counter the hate. For my part, I plan on doing exactly that by helping my local PFlag and state equality group.
To tie this into weight loss, I guess I will add the primary reason I am losing weight is because I view the weight I carry as the shield I built around myself. Now that I feel like I can be myself, I am working at removing that shield so people can see the real me that much better.
Rachel Bryk killed herself last week. She was 23 years old. Before her suicide she had been repeatedly bullied on-line for being transgender. I read about her death this weekend, but it was in reading a Washington Post article this morning that I felt a rage build in me.
I like so many LGBT people was bullied when I was a kid. I got it for being fat and being a 'f*g' and being girly. It took me over twenty years after high school to finally find a sense of selfworth and happiness. I see stories like Rachel's and I just can't stand it. We as a community need to find a way to better reach out and counter the hate. For my part, I plan on doing exactly that by helping my local PFlag and state equality group.
To tie this into weight loss, I guess I will add the primary reason I am losing weight is because I view the weight I carry as the shield I built around myself. Now that I feel like I can be myself, I am working at removing that shield so people can see the real me that much better.
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