The good news is that there’s no quota. There are no limits to the number of people who can identify as Transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary. You’re not taking anything away from anyone else. You are who you are. You are whatever identity or identities you chose for yourself. It’s much more important how you identify than how others identify you.

You can’t let others decide for you. No matter what you do, there will alway be people who will misidentify you. Some of us might misidentify you as Swedish, Dutch or even German! That doesn’t mean that you are suddenly Swedish, Dutch, or German, you’re still going to be Norwegian-Finnish. Even if Sweden or Denmark decide to conquer Norway again!

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I’m sure writing has helped you define who you are. Even if this posting hasn’t helped this time…

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Thanks, @droughtquake. It's good to know that people care.  

13 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Thanks, @droughtquake. It's good to know that people care.  

I care even if I can’t know what it’s like to be you – Norwegians and Finns are very foreign to me! According to @Timothy M.’s favorite documentary cartoon, SatW, Brother Norway always has a fish in his hands or on his head – and Brother Finland is a dour sharpshooter who Sister Sweden loves to humiliate. Of course, Brother America is realistically portrayed as fatter and more clueless than anyone else!

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If you want to dress like a boy and feel like a boy some days, and dress like a girl and feel like a girl other days, then you should feel free to do so. People around you will soon get used to you saying or showing who you are in any specific moment. I think that the more people who challenge the gender norms in many different ways, the more people will have to revise their rigid hetero- or homo-normative thinking. Hopefully, we'll end up in a world where tolerance and acceptance is worth more than religion and tradition.

 fra Danmark

6 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

If you want to dress like a boy and feel like a boy some days, and dress like a girl and feel like a girl other days, then you should feel free to do so. People around you will soon get used to you saying or showing who you are in any specific moment. I think that the more people who challenge the gender norms in many different ways, the more people will have to revise their rigid hetero- or homo-normative thinking. Hopefully, we'll end up in a world where tolerance and acceptance is worth more than religion and tradition.

 fra Danmark

 Thank you, Tim.  

You might find this article interesting: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/boeger/verdens-foerste-queer-hun-smadrede-koensrollerne-100-aar-siden 

6 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

You might find this article interesting: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/boeger/verdens-foerste-queer-hun-smadrede-koensrollerne-100-aar-siden 

That's really cool. Thanks!  

I just saw this feature about a school for transgender kids in Chile on BBC. Cool in some ways, but also a sad testimony of the lack of inclusiveness in schools.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-48271140/inside-chile-s-amaranta-school-for-transgender-children 

Saw this on CNN earlier https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/10/europe/vatican-gender-theory-intl-hnk/index.html   

Yet another reason to despise the Catholic Church 

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The Vatican remains in the dark ages, promoting a false teaching that relies on myth, rumor, and falsehoods.

I think that says it all. I believe the Vatican is based on myth, rumor, and falsehood. I think more than half of the popes, ‘saints,’ cardinals, bishops, priests, nuns, and other catholic celebrities will be shocked when they reincarnate as slugs and dung beetles.

45 minutes ago, droughtquake said:

I think that says it all. I believe the Vatican is based on myth, rumor, and falsehood. 

Yeah I liked that quote too. And you have a point, but I'd like to add 'traditions based in the Middle Age reality rather than modern times'.

You didn’t like the delicious irony of incarnation rather than their expected heaven/purgatory/hell afterlife?
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21 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

Saw this on CNN earlier https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/10/europe/vatican-gender-theory-intl-hnk/index.html   

Yet another reason to despise the Catholic Church 

Ugh, really wish I could say I was surprised, but... It's basically to be expected at this point. I went to a Catholic school. There are a lot of kind, compassionate Catholics who don't ascribe to any of those beliefs, though we did have teachers with certain tendencies to the opposite... Thankfully, due to Norwegian laws regarding the education system, private schools also have to follow the national curriculum. We had fairly comprehensive sexual education.

21 hours ago, droughtquake said:

I think that says it all. I believe the Vatican is based on myth, rumor, and falsehood. I think more than half of the popes, ‘saints,’ cardinals, bishops, priests, nuns, and other catholic celebrities will be shocked when they reincarnate as slugs and dung beetles.

Haha, they'll all be terribly surprised.  I don't really believe in reincarnation or heaven or hell, or any other specific life after death. I'm pretty agnostic about it. I don't know, and I don't really care either. Just care about living my life to the best of my ability here and now, make the most of it and try to do good.

1 hour ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Haha, they'll all be terribly surprised.  I don't really believe in reincarnation or heaven or hell, or any other specific life after death. I'm pretty agnostic about it. I don't know, and I don't really care either. Just care about living my life to the best of my ability here and now, make the most of it and try to do good.

There’d be some Jesuits (especially) who would fit right in in Valhalla!
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Olympic Gold Metal-winner, Greg Louganis, attended El Cajon’s Valhalla High School in suburban San Diego, CA!
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