My local news station turned a non-issue into "controversy" today

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Thursday April 02, 2015 · 2:04 PM PDT

2015/04/02 · 14:04

I'm a bit reluctant to post about this, because I realize drawing even more attention to the article just feeds the media beast, but then I made the mistake of reading the often hateful and transphobic comments on the article, and knew I had to speak up.

Essentially, a local high school, upon the enrollment of two transgender students, changed their policy to allow students to use the restroom of the gender they identify as--at the beginning of the year, they originally had to use the restroom in the nurse's office.

This was met with no hoopla, and no controversy. Which is kind of remarkable, given the fact that this is a school in Kansas we're talking about. Until, that is... more after the fold.

MrsGeiiga

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Thursday February 21, 2013 · 10:36 AM PST

2013/02/21 · 10:36

I am bisexual.

My family knows this. My husband knows this. Many of my friends do as well. My daughter doesn't exactly know yet, but I plan to tell her soon-- she's 11, and although I've brought her up to understand that sexuality is not a choice, and homosexuality is (or at least should be) as acceptable as heterosexuality, I haven't quite found the ideal way to tell my daughter about my own circumstances.

I'm also happily married (imagine that, my handle here is MrsGeiiga, and my husband goes by Geiiga around here). As a woman, married to a man, I enjoy the benefits of "traditional" marriage. My husband, thankfully, understands my sexuality fully. And he fully trusts me--I've never given him a reason to distrust me, and I never will. They say the best relationships are built on mutual trust and respect, but since I'd never actually had a relationship built on those pillars, I didn't truly appreciate those qualities until I met my husband. Cliché as it sounds, our marriage does transcend everything else, and I'm grateful that our relationship is recognized by all of our society as something acceptable, something ideal. It breaks my heart to think that if things had turned out differently, if I'd met and fallen in love with a woman instead, our relationship would be scrutinized, disdained, discarded, particularly here in Kansas.

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My local news station turned a non-issue into "controversy" today

Tackling the pervasive stigma of bisexuality