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Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // CLOSED

NikNikSenior Contributor02 May 2016, 1:40 pm AEST

Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // CLOSED

To mark International Day against Homophobia, transphobia & Biphobia, Forum partner Living Proud will join us to discuss building resilience as a response to discrimination.

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CherryBombSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:26 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

@RossQLife @eth @MoonGal Does anyone know why today is IDAHoT day?

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RossQLifeSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:28 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

Ooooh I do I do, but let's see who wins the prize...

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ethSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:29 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

No they are now 27, married with a child @RossQLife. But by no means yet very resilient when it comes to the general public's assumption of binary gender identity. They identify as neither female nor male and are still evolving into who they have realised they need to be.

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MoonGalSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:29 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

I shared an IDOHOT post on my facebook page today from Phillipines in solidarity - but I hadn't actually ever heard of it before. So no don't know what the origins are - something terrible remembered and turned around to embrace and celebrate diveristy is my guess.

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RossQLifeSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:31 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

@eth, ah ok. Well best of luck to them... it's pretty hard to lead a life that's so authentic. I hope they feel well connected and would remind you that QLife is there and available between 3pm and midnight if they ever want to talk to someone.

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MoonGalSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:33 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

@Former-Member - umm, with all respect I reckon this argument has an overt lack of knowledge of what it means to be transgender and most assaults that occur are not people in gender differentiated clothing. I can understand that people are worried about an issue they have no knowledge about but it is easy to get good solid information about transgender people's lives. It is similar to the old way of thinking and discriminatory behaviours that not so long ago had everyone screaming lock up your children when there were gay men living n the neighbour hood.

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RossQLifeSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:34 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

@MoonGal yep pretty close... on the 17th of May, 1990 homosexuality was officially removed from the international list of mental health conditions! (Yes, 1990... )

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KurraSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:38 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

IDAHOT I think was established when homosexuality was removed from the DSM as a mental illness. It wasn't that long ago either but I've forgotten the year. I know it was this century.

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RossQLifeSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:39 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

hi @Kurra! So close!

But yep, it still feels like 1990 was a really late time to make this statement.

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ethSenior Contributor17 May 2016, 7:40 pm AEST

Re: Topic Tuesday // Resilience as a response to discrimination // Tues, 17 May, 7pm AEST

I just tried to reply to @Former-Member's comment but my post disappeared for some reason. The parents should be supervising the children anyway. A solution would be to have a gender-free bathroom available and still have separate male and female ones for those who want them. It is already happening in some places.

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