Posted on 04/18/2022 9:59:15 PM PDT by Angelino97
Day 40 in the war zone marked the first time a Ukrainian directly asked me what it was like to be transgender.
A 25-year old attorney by profession, he was now a studious soldier. While manning checkpoints at the front line of Ukrainian defense efforts against the Russian invasion of his land, he took a moment to walk over to me during one of my visits to his outpost.
Phone in hand, my Twitter profile opened, pointing out the part where I wrote that I’m trans, his words were simple.
“What is this? What does it mean? I’ve never met you before.”
Expanding the screen he continued.
“Tell me about how this is you?”
As I wrote in my first article for LGBTQ Nation, hanging over my trip to Ukraine was the question as to whether I’d even be allowed into the country due to issues surrounding my gender identity and how I’d be treated if I was given permission to enter. ...
Outside of my reporting for this publication, where my gender identity came up in interviews I conducted with the Director of Kyiv Pride and gay members of the Ukrainian military, only once in the first five weeks of my time in Ukraine did my past come up in conversation. ...
Touching on their understanding of what being transgender is, and how they saw it applying to life in Ukraine, along with my situation specifically, the discussion commenced.
Unsurprisingly, I was the first out, or post transition, trans or non-binary person any of them had met.
When asked how they felt being around me, one person, a man in his early 30s, replied positively. “Easy because I didn’t realize you weren’t a woman when we first met.” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at qnotescarolinas.com ...
I just don’t care and do t understand why I’m supposed to care.
There’s no such thing as transgender.
These trannies will do anything to call attention to their depravity.
It's a real POS, and I hope the Russians capture it in the future.
How many Transgenders people are there? Less than 1/2 of 1%?
I don’t care.
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They will also migrate to places they think they can engage in perverted sexual activities. War zones are no exception and have been that way for centuries. Problem now days they are not even trying to be desecrate about it.
One question. Do you know how to fire wm AK-47? Never know when it may come in handy.
At the bottom of an ocean?
I suspect it sucks to be a “transgender” anything anywhere.
Wow, 2 things that take absolutely zero talent, skill, or work - transgender and journalist.
She is a loss for the planet.
I’m glad to see that the important issues are being covered ...
Is there any article about what it is like to be a non-binary journalist in Ukraine? Without information on this, how can we go on?
Go to a war and act like a narcissistic clown from a tv series.
Drop your c##ks and grab your socks.
Title should read “What it’s like to travel to a war zone, fraudulently pose as both a woman and a journalist, and then file reports about nothing but yourself.”
I’d bet a dollar that most of those impossible to verify candid conversations of acceptance and validation never even happened.
You mean He.
Is that Psaki?
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