A LETTER I WROTE TO OUR GOVERNMENT :

Hi my name is Michelle Diamond I am a 32 year old Transgender female and Trans activist and also an International TG advocate and campaigner for trans rights and well being and I have a strong voice and I will not go away until I see more help for us being implemented! I am from Queensland, Australia who is 5 months into my transition from male to female after an extensive series of going to my specialist, Psychologist and Psychiatrist and after that getting the green light to go on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and then in years to come have my GRS (Gender Re assignment Surgery). But a lot of other transgendered males and females around Australia can’t get the help they are so in need of, I wrote to you a few months ago and was fobbed off with a 4 page document outlining certain things that you claim helps our Transgender Community but clearly they don’t and more needs to be done, Headspace and beyond blue are in no way sufficient enough in helping the trans community for that matter and think the government need to step up and change certain things, As I said a lot of Trans females and males can’t get the help they need or the support they so long for and it is really hard being born this way, it is a biological anomaly that this happens to us and we do what ever in our power to correct and fix our lives, Now we need more support groups and a better structure to help so we can find a job in the workplace and work as our selves without getting judged and picked on in which most girls have to look to sex work in order to live and fund there transition, a better health system that can deal with the Trans community, more resources in regards to Hormone Replacement Therapy and Gender re Assignment Surgery which should be on the government medical scheme, more access to Trans educated doctors and therapy support, Trans support hotlines run by Trans females and Trans men with experience on how to deal and help a Trans person in need of a chat and help and to get even more support, better education in regards with Transgender health, Stronger policies and laws to protect us while we transition and try and fit into normal society, we get judged, bashed, abused, picked on, mocked and if we get bashed down the street we can’t protect ourselves in turn we are the ones who get charged and face penalties which is wrong, do you realize or know that every Trans person that is killed is an execution style killing? we face getting yelled at with hateful anti trans verbal attacks when we are out living our everyday lives which gets really intense for us some days, as we face the everyday emotional effects of hormones, the depression, anxiety, and the thoughts on will we ever get to be ourselves in terms of fixing what we are born with in which we can not help due to being born with different xxy chromosomes which cause an in balance in our brains and that refers to a certain gender and not always fits the body we are born with in which in turn as I said we try and rectify with the right help and resources if we can get it but there is merely no way near enough help and support and funding to help us, trying to get a job, fitting into society, coming out to parents and friends, our future, the cost’s of transition, changing our names etc. For a large majority of Trans females and Trans males they don’t get the help they need and risk their lives trying to get and find any means possible in order to correct themselves which is a very dangerous health risk if not consulted by a professional, please hear our voice and hear our cries, we won’t lay down anymore and MORE needs to be done is what we ask , yes we can hold rally after rally but then in turn we get arrested for causing a scene which once again feels we have no rights and laws to help in protecting us and getting our voice out there, does more blood need to be spilled in order to protect us? How many more do we have to lose to show that this is a problem? Can’t you see this is a issue that is ever growing and getting worse?

Time for the Australian Government to stand up and help and respect these issues that plague our community and our lives!

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