No Dumb Questions

Jannie Lynn
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • United States
Share 

Jannie Lynn's Friends

 

Jannie Lynn's Page

Comment Wall (1 comment)

You need to be a member of No Dumb Questions to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

At 12:24pm on September 27, 2009, Heather Danielle said…
Hey girl we need to hangout soon! get ahold of me ok? Take care.
Hugs~ Heather

Profile Information

Other
Trans-woman

The journey of a thousand days

This is a bit of history for me now but every thing is of current value to all concerned.
For the protection of the inocent I have changed names and places for their privacy not mine.

As a young child I was unaware of others genders, I simply accepted every one at face value. I did not realize I had a gender identy issue even when my own body started becoming different from the gender I believed I was. I was betrayed by my own body I was changing into a BOY! I had always been friends with both boys and girls and would play with both equally, untill the time came for me to move, our whole family moved to a new place half way around the world at least it felt that way.
The new neighborhood was full of older masculine boys and since I was assumed to be a boy then I was expected to act and do as them. Well this did not work out so well because with in the first week of living there I was already being bullied. I did not want to play their silly boy games and told them I was not going to play any more. For this I was attacked and assulted. I was surrounded by them with no way to escape, I did not want to fight and yet I was tired of being pushed around. I tried to stand up for my self and tell them that I was simply not going to play with them, but befor I could I was punched smack in the eye. The pain shot through my face and befor I could return a punch I was subdued by them all jumping on me and over powering me. I was kicked, choked, punched and restrainded. Finally they grew tired of hurting me and left. There I was a victim of violence for what reason? I did not want to play with them? Or was it they could tell that I was different?
From that moment I layed on the ground wincing in pain wondering just how bad they had hurt me. My face felt as if it was on fire and the dull pounding was welling up into my face.
I forced my self up and hobbled home. I knew that I was hurt and that my parents had told me not to play with them yet I did not listen and when I realized that they where right it was too late. I carefully slipped in the door and went right to the bathroom. Ohh Crap this is horable, my face had swollen to twice it's size and my eye had already swelled shut, with deep bruising already showing. I felt sick to my stomach just looking at my self and I was feeling week and light headed, I grabbed my hoodie and snuck back out-side. I did not know what to do and all I could think of was what to tell my parents.. I could barly stand, so I layed down in the grass, my head feeling foggy I tried to keep my focuse but things went black.
story to be continued...

Jannie Lynn's Blog

Jannie Lynn

Going back to where it all began

I know it might sound strange but I simply have to leave and face the things in my past. I can't run any more and this time is the last for me. No longer will I be going back as the person I once was because that is impossible on so many levels. Instead I am going back to where it all began the Town, the home, the past family that no longer accepts me I am going to face each and every one of them to let them know that I still care and that even if they don't feel good about this I certainly do.… Continue

Posted on October 13, 2009 at 8:01am —

Jannie Lynn

Thousand days journey only just begining!!

Here we go again! Welcome back to all the great and wonderfull stories I have to share much like a Thousand and one nights from Arabian Nights tales.. I have the stories to share here. Not all of them are going to be about me but for now the first series will be. Primarily because I want to chronicle this transistional time in my life with the whole story from triumps to pitfalls and every thing else.

Some days are better than others, living life on a day by day choice, to struggle on. I seek t… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 8:30pm —

Jannie Lynn

Part two Transgender Michigan

Well I thought I might stay in Michigan for a few days maybe a week but instead I found a job and started a new journey of my life one that had a lot of unknowns. I was able to meet with and even find a place to stay the trans activist Michelle Fox-Phillips. now when I met this woman she appeared small and frail and to be honest a little scarry.
But I needed help and she was offering to help me so I took it. Now I have been in Michigain for several months.
What I have come to find out is that Mi… Continue

Posted on September 22, 2009 at 7:30am —

Jannie Lynn

Transgender Detroit thousand days journey

Well feeling like there should be an update here since I have left the state of Indiana for Michigan.
It all started out good I had a good job, and then I had a day from heck that I had to make a decision and I made one but as usuall I am making bad choices for my sef and not really thinking about them but rather acting on my feelings about things.

My spuse and I had kept in touch untill I moved to Michigan she has since decided to stop communicating with me. I moved to the detroit area after t… Continue

Posted on August 31, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Jannie Lynn

Transgender Indiana the 34th demension of a thousand days journey!

Ok Some thing more recent and I would hope a bit more insight full. I am fast forwarding the story line to the most current time frame that being said here is how life has been as an overall perspective for me. I was stuck with bad dead end jobs working temp jobs part time jobs and then I get a pretty decent job as an optical lab technician, well this job was good and I enjoyed it especially the side projects of making movies for special occassions at work. I definitly found my calling both as a… Continue

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 1:30am —

 
 

Members

  • Maiya Holliday
  • Kate Trumbull
  • sig gmail
"Wonderful!"
-- Betty DeGeneres,
Ellen's mom
Visionary media, technology, and social justice partners help us turn stories into educational tools for social change.
NoDumbQuestions.org was incubated at the BAVC Producer's Institute for New Media Technologies.
 

© 2009   Created by Melissa Regan

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service

Sign in to chat!