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 Michelle is a giant in the community, she has been a human rights activist for many years and is like a human phone book with all the networking resources at her finger tips. She might look frail but she goes places and does things that I would never have done on my own. I am in awe of her heart of gold, she will help any one that is need taking up their cause as if it was her own.
She has lost her spouse a person that had a great influence on her activites and also a fellow trangerder woman. Their love for each other is evident even today. Michelle has been taking up the cause for transgender rights in the Detroit area for a long time now and she is still in pursuit of that goal. She is forming a new Non-profit charity and wants to have a full time trans support center complet with counseling and crisis help for food clothing and shelter for Transgender persons.
She has been a great inspiration to me since I have stayed with her. I have gone out on several occassions with her to town hall meetings, Pflag events, church, social gatherings, support group meetings and all sorts of other places too.
I am so gratful that I met Michelle, she really has helped me in so many ways that I could truly never repay the kindness that she has shown me. But what I can do is to take up the cause as I see it and to follow on and continue in the path that she has set for others to follow if we all just took one day a year that would be a great thing but imagine if we all took the time and dedication that Michelle does to trans rights she never stops, she always is there for the cause of equality. WOW what wonderful things could happen if we all were like her.
I want to go forward in my life and I know that activisim is going to be part of it, all due to the shining example that Michelle is. I hope to make her dreams come true some day. I want to see her face when that first center opens. I think that after years of her struggles that it's time that others like my self take up the cause and step up to take the challenge that she has placed for us all to follow her example.
Now comes the hard part I am in the middle of a divorce, loss of my former life nothing is what is used to be or what it should be every thing it turned up side down. right now I just have to handle my own personal struggles and yet I know that there is a light at the end of all this there is a goal and her is a path to follow. Being an activist like Michelle does not pay in fact she does every thing out of her own pocket! So I need to find a good carrer path that will allow for me to make good money and to find time for projects to help others. I am interested in Real~estate development and also Videography making films and writing stories, books, screenplays, ect. I am not shure how or exactly when things are going to happen but I will continue to do as much for the cause of Transgender rights as I personally can and will continue to try and raise awarness and gain more allies in this world.
"Long ago I knew I was different just how different only time will tell."~Jannie Lynn Brod
I have been inspired by Michelle and others, I hope that some day I might be an inspiration that helps some-one as well. I have been going to support groups twice a week here. Plus I have found a wonderful counselor that is seeing me to get my approval for the SRS so as long as I am here in Michigain I am going to be making great new friends and progressing to reach my goal to be complete. I just am so happy to be surrounded by such wonderful people and friends that I would have never met other wise.
I do know that some day I will have to go back to Indiana but I also know that the friends that I have made her will last a life time.
Well that is life on the blink for me.. till next time be proud of who you are.
Jannie Lynn Brod Trans-Woman
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 Michelle is a giant in the community, she has been a human rights activist for many years and is like a human phone book with all the networking resources at her finger tips. She might look frail but she goes places and does things that I would never have done on my own. I am in awe of her heart of gold, she will help any one that is need taking up their cause as if it was her own.
She has lost her spouse a person that had a great influence on her activites and also a fellow trangerder woman. Their love for each other is evident even today. Michelle has been taking up the cause for transgender rights in the Detroit area for a long time now and she is still in pursuit of that goal. She is forming a new Non-profit charity and wants to have a full time trans support center complet with counseling and crisis help for food clothing and shelter for Transgender persons.
She has been a great inspiration to me since I have stayed with her. I have gone out on several occassions with her to town hall meetings, Pflag events, church, social gatherings, support group meetings and all sorts of other places too.
I am so gratful that I met Michelle, she really has helped me in so many ways that I could truly never repay the kindness that she has shown me. But what I can do is to take up the cause as I see it and to follow on and continue in the path that she has set for others to follow if we all just took one day a year that would be a great thing but imagine if we all took the time and dedication that Michelle does to trans rights she never stops, she always is there for the cause of equality. WOW what wonderful things could happen if we all were like her.
I want to go forward in my life and I know that activisim is going to be part of it, all due to the shining example that Michelle is. I hope to make her dreams come true some day. I want to see her face when that first center opens. I think that after years of her struggles that it's time that others like my self take up the cause and step up to take the challenge that she has placed for us all to follow her example.
Now comes the hard part I am in the middle of a divorce, loss of my former life nothing is what is used to be or what it should be every thing it turned up side down. right now I just have to handle my own personal struggles and yet I know that there is a light at the end of all this there is a goal and her is a path to follow. Being an activist like Michelle does not pay in fact she does every thing out of her own pocket! So I need to find a good carrer path that will allow for me to make good money and to find time for projects to help others. I am interested in Real~estate development and also Videography making films and writing stories, books, screenplays, ect. I am not shure how or exactly when things are going to happen but I will continue to do as much for the cause of Transgender rights as I personally can and will continue to try and raise awarness and gain more allies in this world.
"Long ago I knew I was different just how different only time will tell."~Jannie Lynn Brod
I have been inspired by Michelle and others, I hope that some day I might be an inspiration that helps some-one as well. I have been going to support groups twice a week here. Plus I have found a wonderful counselor that is seeing me to get my approval for the SRS so as long as I am here in Michigain I am going to be making great new friends and progressing to reach my goal to be complete. I just am so happy to be surrounded by such wonderful people and friends that I would have never met other wise.
I do know that some day I will have to go back to Indiana but I also know that the friends that I have made her will last a life time.
Well that is life on the blink for me.. till next time be proud of who you are.
Jannie Lynn Brod Trans-Woman
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