REPUBLICANS PUSHING ANTI TRANS BILLS

A number of states are proposing bills that will greatly affect the transgender community. The South Dakota legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill that criminalizes medical procedures that address gender dysphoria in children under 16. If passed through the Senate and signed by the governor, trans youth will be severely affected. Some states will assess fines and jail time if doctors and medical personnel help trans people.

This is a sad commentary of what our fearless leaders are doing to our community. They are doing this in the trans community because we are less in numbers. Don't think that they don't go after gays and lesbians. It's on their agenda. Time for us to step up 

LET'S BE ADULTS

One hope I have for 2020 is for differing groups to begin talking and listening to each other. Nothing will be solved if people are hollering and screaming at each other. Tribalism just creates more tension and angst. There are numerous problems that need to be resolved. It is time for people to act like adults find solutions.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Patience is not simply the ability to wait-it's how we behave while we're waiting. 

~Joyce Meyer

ANTI TRANS BILLS

Many states are proposing bills that would limit trans people's access to medical care, counseling, and public accommodations. In one case some treating a trans person is subject to a felony. It's time for activists and people of good will to see that these bills don't get passed.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

FCS CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to the North Dakota State University Bisons on winning their 8th FCS championship.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

You must do the things you think you cannot do.


~Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady (1884-1962)

ONE GOAL FOR 2020

Each year I list some goals I will attain. Last year I wrote much poetry (between 150 and 200 poems). This year one goal is to write a full-length play. I have written small plays in the past. I have a few ideas as to what I will write. Still thinking of a few other goals.

TRANS AND PROUD

The new year was just two days old when the news of a transgender person in Oklahoma was murdered. The attacks on trans people have been ramped up in recent months. The media, in my mind, is complicit in fomenting some of the anti-LGBTQ bigotry. Trans people are being made to become invisible because of policies that wish to deny our existence.

It is time that we stand in solidarity for the right to be who we are. No one can tell us how to live our lives. I will not go into a closet because someone feels uncomfortable being around me. That's not my problem. many have sacrificed much to have what we have now and I'm not going to relinquish because of some bigoted politician, preacher, or anyone else.

COMMENTARY

The troubles in Iran, the brush fires in Australia, and the craziness in our streets, and anti-semitism signals more trouble times ahead. The so-called leaders are either powerless, lack a spine, or just out for themselves. The bible talked about these troubled times and it"s happening right before our eyes.

As a Christian I must 🙏 pray. It is time to do what is right. I don't know what will happen in the future but it is important not to be fearful. I am concerned but not fearful. Christian everywhere need to pray for our world. People, do whatever you can to resolve the concerns we may have.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

New Year's Day. A fresh start. a new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. only dreams give birth to change.


~Sarah Ban Breathnach

2020

FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS

DIVISION II

DIVISION III

North Central Cardinals

NAIA

CONGRATULATIONS!

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

~Oscar Wilde

A SPECIAL MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MY LGBTQ+ SISTERS AND BROTHERS

I wish a Merry Christmas to folks who are estranged from their families just because of who they are.  

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS!

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.


~Aristotle (384BC-322BC)

NUMBER TWENTY THREE

Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17, of Vancouver, Washington, is the 23rd reported murdered this year. She is the second teenager killed.

DINNER FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH

Tonight the Beyond Labels ministry hosted a dinner for LGBTQ+ youth. A number of people of various ages came. I had a wonderful conversation with a transman who remembered me from a panel I was on back in November.  There were games, food, music, dancing, and fun.

I would do another one of these and pray that it happens again in the future.   

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

~Oscar Wilde, Dramatist (1854-1900)