I am transgender: Allyson Robinson at TEDxNightingaleBamfordSchool
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- As principal of her own boutique consulting firm, Warrior Poet Strategies, Allyson Robinson advises select clients in organizational design, change strategy, diversity management, and movement entrepreneurship. Previously, she led internal and external diversity initiatives at the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, where she conceived, created, and launched the organization's social enterprise to train large organizations in diversity and inclusion. She later became the first transgender person to lead a national LGBT advocacy organization as executive director of OutServe-SLDN. In that role, she developed and coordinated the public vetting of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on LGBT issues, getting him to make a decisive, written commitment to equality prior to his confirmation. She has also served as an Army officer and an ordained Baptist pastor, studied at West Point, Oxford University, and Arizona State, and earned degrees in physics and theology. Allyson, her wife of 19 years, and their four children live in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
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i'm a straight, white, middle aged male, or cismale. Sorry if i'm getting the nomenclature wrong. I can't understand why anybody gives a shit what anybody else wants to do with their body, their life, their gender. Maybe sexual reproduction is just the first phase of human evolution. Maybe gender will be a much more fluid aspect of humanity in 500 years. Maybe sexual reproduction is part of humanity's aggression and selfishness.
I don't know, but it sure is fascinating. We should all just keep trying to be nice to each other. The only thing we need to repress is our urge to be assholes.
+Marcellus Santos - Marcellus, first of all that body doesn't belong to him. Simply you and I can't find an Allyson Robinson manufacturing company that built his body. Therefore whoever (God) allowed him to be born and clothed with flesh; seen as a man. You use the word "Maybe" in your fourth sentence that indicates that you aren't sure about the reproduction method-sad. You be cool to the notion. I will attempt to help the individual come to themselves.
Right on and excellent point. I just want to share one thing with you since you really do seem interested in gender and everything. Is that more and more doctors and researchers are starting to arrive at the same conclusion and that is that transsexualism is in fact another form of intersexuality in that they are born with only an intersexed brain, and not the more obvious typical signs that intersex conditions we know of today show, which also include being born with an intersex brain, but also intersex reproductive organs, and or intersex chromosomes such as XXY, XYY, XYXY, XXXY, XO, XXYY and so on. Umm here's an excerpt from a paper that Dr.Milton Diamond wrote in 2011 where in it one of things he talks about is why he has come to the conclusion
that transsexualism in another form or forms of intersexuality that all lead to the same thing a person being born with only an intersexed brain, totally "normal genitals, and sex chromosomes for the genitals they have), but the brain is intersexed, which can't be seen, and I can tell you that it sucks to be raised as and expected to be a boy when one is a girl, and I know that trans males feel the same way that it really sucked for them to be expected to be girls and were raised as such. I'm sure if you are a guy you could imagine how much it would suck if you were forced and felt pressured to be what
everyone expects of you based on your body
eproductive organs. I wish I had had access to information about transgender\transsexual people when I was a kid. I didn't come across until I was like 15 when we finally got AOL and it's not like I'm super old, but I was born in 1982, and really all I had seen of trans women up to that point had been like them as jokes where people would say things like chicks with d*icks, she-males, trannies, and then I also saw drag queens and honestly all of that did not sound positive and it didn't sound like how I felt, and then yeah my Mom was not very kind when talking about gay men, so I was like oh I really don't know how she would take it if I tell her that her favorite son because she made no secret that she got along
with me the best out of all of her sons geeee I wonder why, lol that he was in fact really a girl, and that yes if at all possible I would like to live as a girl. Based on how she was talking about gay men I felt it best that I never ever mention it to her, which I obviously did at 24, but by then she had evolved on gay issues, and also I should have had more faith in my Mom's unconditional love for me was absolutely true in her case, but that's just it it's not always true for every trans person who feels that a certain parent or both parents love me unconditionally and then have turned around and been kicked out or found out that it's the other parent that they didn't expect to support them is the one that is supporting them. Anyway sorry for the rant here's the excerpt along with a link to the entire paper, and I would also be more than happy to answer any question you might have about gender and my experience with being born with transsexualism, which is how the medical community phrases it.
“Actually from my own clinical experiences, my own experimental research, and from the findings of others I conclude that transsexuality is a form of intersexuality…. I believe that transsexuals are intersexed in their brains as others are or might be more obviously so in their gonads, genitals, hormonal character, receptors, enzymatic or chromosomal constitution. And it is this brain intersexuality that biases the person to assert his or her gender identity.”
www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2011-ethical-considerations.html
Wow, that was response and a half! Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you don't pay any attention to the repressed, religious, ass hats commenting here. There are plenty of "regular" people like me who would stick up for a rare person like you.
Glad to here your mom is cool with everything.
Take care.
Marcellus Santos Yeah, sorry it was so long, but I guess well I've always been accused of talking too much as I grew up by male friends, lol. So I guess it's no surprise that I would also write way to long of replies as well, lol. Thank you for your support, and if you ever do have any questions feel free to ask, and it does make me really happy to know that there are just good people in the
world is how I see it. I don't see people as male, female, black, white, hispanic, Christian, or Muslim I just see humans and I really only see whether they are humans who really do care for their fellow human, or if they don't or if they only care when it's convenient. I really do believe there are more good people in this world such as yourself than those who are on the opposite end of that spectrum
What a load of bull. Our bodies belong to us, not some imaginary friend in the sky.
what shocks me are the people in the comments that aren't within the trans Community nor anywhere close to it but yet feel the need to come on here and leave negative hateful comments, or ignorant comments. Why are you even here I'm trying to figure out how does this affect you? And it's not like you're watching the video to get any kind of understanding or ask intelligent questions
I think the fact that they are here suggests they do want to know more. I think many who spout hate are questioning their own identity but fear has hardened their hearts. If we speak patiently with love and compassion they may learn and understand.
But then, some are just ugly, vile people with nothing better to do than antagonize others. These are the people who need the most prayer for certainly their lives can be no better than the excrement they share.
Learning about the LGBTQ+ community really opened my eyes into a different word; a world full of love and acceptance and a new age of beautiful people.
Except when they don't get their way. They turn to hatred and violence when faced with the truth.
+MsPrettypinkpanther8 SPEAK THAT TRUTH GIRL, LGBT are the biggest bullies in history.
Every group has their troubled individuals. That's doesn't mean the whole is tainted. There are very few who are vocal and while their intention is good, their actions are often foolish.
Besides, what is truth?
I think BLM would disagree. Police are the biggest bullies.But I says politicians are. They are masters of manipulating with fear hate.
LMAO
Great insight at 11:22. "Social norms hold such sway over us that even those of us who have been hurt by them, oppressed by them, crushed under them are not immune to their power, even once we're free of them. And so we do things like that to ourselves, and we do them to each other."
Not social norms biological facts.
You can change your mind but you can't change your body.
You can change your mind. You can change your feelings. You can even change your beliefs.
*You can't change your identity.* Your personality is as real and unchanging as your DNA.
You can’t change your mind in respects to identity. There are a multitude of studies that were done which proved conversion therapy was ineffective
You can not change your identity. And you also can't change the fact that you'll always be a "Chad". Moron.
@@r-platt you are absolutely right, you can change your identity and we even have a word for that it's called identity theft. Have a good day and try not to hurt yourself thinking about it too hard.
@@chadoconnor9260 ROFL! Gender identity isn't theft. It's a person's perception of their own manhood or womanhood.
Identity theft is... well, you know that one.
Outside of some children, NOBODY can change their gender identity.
To prove the point, try convincing yourself that you are really a woman in a man's body so completely that you feel you are a woman down to the core of your being.
And make that stick for the rest of your life.
It cannot be done. Not even 1970s CIA brainwashing could manage it.
Damn! Is this still a shock subject?! Are people still proud of this or amazed when they should only feel normal like any other human being?! I guess I didn't go too far to the future, lets try 5 more hundred years this time.
PLEASE!! Take me with you!
I was blessed hearing this wonderful message. The string of pearls as a gift summed it all up at the end. Words about our self worth and unconditional love and support for each other. Thank you Allyson and Danielle for your Shining Light for all to see.
Peace and Love to you, and all who hear. Frances.
Most men protect and support women or people in general regardless of gender identification. It is in our DNA to protect and offer selfless risk to anyone who is being mistreated or in danger. It seems clear from this talk that most issues of concern or fear are an internal struggle. I truly have compassion for your struggles and pain during your journey, but please know there are so many people in this world that will respect and defend your humanity.
Hi Allyson!!! Small world how we have the same name!!! I’m so proud of you!!!!! Having to hide myself for almost 8 years has been hard but I have so many good friends helping me along my path.
Is there a forum where spouses may meet? I'm finally trying to transition but my wife is having a very hard time with it.
Thank you, Allyson. I so appreciate your video! I am so thankful that you have someone who loves you. You are an inspiration and so beautiful inside and out!
While watching your video, I am shedding a tear because I am just like you.
Hi Allyson, very well presented. I only wish that I could have stood beside you. I am a 50 year old trans woman also and since I came out and transitioned I had this overwhelming sense of pride and belonging to the "sisterhood". In my younger years I just felt socially and internally numb. Thank you once again for your speech.
Amazing, brilliant, and inspirational! Thank you so much for this!
God Bless this lady
We could be wrong about everything!
This was wonderful and so helpful! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
Thank you for your courage in being yourself.
Thank you for all you do. Hugs
I'm in the tenth grade and trans ftm. I can't make friends easily with neither gender because I'm a boy but a female. It's really annoying. I really wish I wasn't trans yo
Wonderful video and you are a lovely woman! Hugs
I'm so proud of you! You're an awesome child of God.
Allyson, your awesome ! I wish I could be half the woman you are.
I too am this way... I love women as I love myself as a woman! I am woman. I just know it now as I did when I was a child! Nothing wrong with my psychological mental health!
Amen, sister! I wish you tremendous success as the real you.
My life has become so much more fulfilling since I accepted who and what I am. I'm finally being treated for testosterone poisoning.
Like many of us, I wish I could have started treatment when I was 16. But it turns out the 2nd best time to start is now.
Stay blessed!
Robert Platt testosterone poison? wow that is bass akwards, as my grandad used to say. testosterone poison..interesting so the hormones your body naturally made are poison and the treatment is to put large doses of a hormone your body would never naturally make (in that amount) that cause your penis to shrink and breasts to grow on a male. The purpose of breasts is to feed a baby, if you needed them your body would have naturally poisoned you with the hormones needed to do so. Do what you want, just don't expect others to entertain your insanity, you were not being poison ed with testosterone. Did you ever consider just maybe your mind is poisoned?
@@xx_shooting_star_xx5197 you choose to possess the moral belief that the body is more important than the mind, which is a pretty sad belief to have
Be friends.
i just reported like half the comments i saw on this video which is sad because all of those comments were hateful. this person is a woman and she does not have a mental illness.
False
@@allahbole The doctor said "false" when he looked at your mom when you were ejected from the wrong hole.
@@VAMR-vc7xg You're a coward.
Thank you x
I really wanted to watch this, but the sound is TERRIBLE! 😖
Love it!
She's gorgeous. She looks like a younger Meryl Streep!
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and Congrats on living your truth!
She’s so beautiful
Shes a he. Cant deal what an inspiration, Im transitioning to a cockroach and this is so encouraging. Awesome
omg she looks so much like she could be called susan
She's clearly a woman. I love her and her strenght!
Vampira I know right?
How does one come to the knowledge that they are in the wrong body?
For me at 6 I felt different than everyone else - I didn't fit into any group. Once puberty hit I knew I wanted to be a girl. But fear held me in place for decades and this inner need torments me every waking moment of just about every day since puberty.
But it's not binary. I'm not completely female and I don't hate being male. But the need to be _more_ female is what is driving me to change.
he has demons!
Ryan Ehlis: Don't we all?
@@r-platt gender dysphoria DX
@@r-platt you just do
Welcome toyoutube
Gorgeous and a good presentation. Are we sure she’s not actually Meryl Streep 😊 ;-) ?
You are gorgeous
I was assigned as a Japanese female at birth. Doctor Yamazaki had no idea what he was doing. Thankfully, I have transitioned into an Congolese male. I am Kolo N'bembe. I am strong. I am beautiful.
You're a gorgeous woman. You're an inspiration to ALL of us! NO ONE has the right to judge. Any Bible quoting pharisees should be ashamed of themselves. Jesus taught us to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
Having a bad day? Why not become woman? This whole movement is insulting and ridiculous.
There’s a lot more to it than that. Your comment is beyond pathetic in showing your ignorance.
I beg to differ: there are plenty of individuals who are born with the "wrong body" though I must confess that I do not like the phrase. Personally I like my body and hate it at the same time but I am not even sure that words do justice to my feelings. Perhaps it would be better to say "with the development of the wrong body" since "male" does not necessarily mean "man/boy or "female" does not necessarily mean girl/woman. Excuse me. Having been educated in Europe I find my compatriots using "male" and "female" incorrectly or sloppily.
No, when you were born your sex was correctly labelled as 'boy''. You had a penis, and presumably no sexual organs ambiguity. At your birth, you were far too young to form your gender IDENTITY. Yes, somewhere along the journey of your young life, something changed. Your gender IDENTITY became that of a girl. What I can't understand is why the SEX organs are artificially put through a TRANSition, but it's called 'transGENDER'. It seems to me that the gender, the self identification, remains constant, there's no waivering (unless you're gender FLUID) - but the SEX parts are changed/crossed. I don't know a lot about it, but I have a feeling that 'TRANSgender' is the wrong word. I DO know about ambiguous genitalia, and intersex babies, and designating the 'sex' of babies. As a midwife of quite a few years, I've had some experience with birth and babies. But it's the 'gender identification' part of 'TRANSgender' that I don't get. The term 'GID', I DO get. Much more accurate. (IMO)
Utterly ridiculous
el diablo en vivo que verguenza
TWISTED, WE ARE IN THE END TIMES, I BELIEVE THAT.. GOD SPOKE ABOUT THIS.........
*[[Mat 19:4]] WEB* He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
she is saying that her existence was a mistake.she said that she was suppose to be a boy while even her birth was not determine by her parents or the doctor bit by God and God never will make mistakes.she rejected her gender ,it's like disagreeing with God . she even say ,hey wait we have to discuss about this" what an ignorance person. the psalmist said,"*[[Psa 139:14]] WEB* I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. woow how can she disagree with the scripture unbelieveble. she will give account to the creator for her ignorance
Only women are referred to with female pronouns. He is a man.
Physically, yes, but not mentally. Men aren't like that mentally.
God does not make mistakes, but He does create calamities. He does cause pain and suffering. He does make some of us blind and deaf. But nowhere does He tell us to simply be content with ourselves. We should always strive to better our body and our mind.If a person said they wanted to become an animal - a cat or dog - I would call that a perversion of God's creation. Otherwise it says He created us man AND woman. If the word "OR" were used, that would signify a uniqueness that should not be crossed. But to say we are man and woman is to acknowledge we are more than just the shape of our skin.
*[[Phi **4:11**]] KJV* Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
We need to content in every situations
Being a man or a woman is NOT necessarily biological. There are plenty of women who are biologically male. There are transgender women, of course and cisgender women and also also intersexual women and men for the matter. There are also cisgender women who cannot bear children. Does this make them any less of a woman?
Being a man or a woman is ONLY biological.
I'm tired of all these terms cisgender, queer, etc! You either have a dick or a vagina tired of all these fake gender identities to make people content in their miserable lives!
You know IBM said basically the same thing about the PC when it first came out.Why would you rejoice in keeping others miserable? It's in transition that transgender people stop being miserable and actually feel joy.If it's any consolation, I have a hard time with the alphabet soup, too.
I think technology is going too fast for us to handle. Legally there is still just MALE and FEMALE and yet there are so many other types of human beings on this planet to be considered! I also consider myself to be transtemporal but almost no-one has ears to hear this so I usually do not say it but anyway since our parents did not know how to deal with me well nor others around me for the matter including doctors I am still a little messed up which does not mean that I cannot help others if they are willing to listen!
I think you are right on target in as far as the fear of transgendered citizens are concerned to come out. Of course, individual circumstances vary. As far as space aliens are concerned, they have already been here and are probably among us, moreover, I believe that we are part extraterrestrial ourselves and that this is not our planet: we just live here! Not everyone has a fear of coming out. I never have.
you go girl said like a women
Just another freak in drag. lmmfao
+nobodyIIX this fucktard left abuse on my channel today. they just go around posting it on the videos of transpeople they regularly watch.
google their profile image: theyre all over youtube on trans/gay videos leaving abuse and cat videos leaving comments about how much they adore cats.
fucking. loser.
*****
Hon, I know hate me because I live in reality.
+Briar Rose I hate you because you travel around youtube leaving hate comments on transgender young peoples videos. youre a piece of shit.
Alex Brady
Hon, It's not hate, it is called living in reality.
+Briar Rose Science is the best tool we have to map reality. Science shows that transwomen are neurologically and developmentally different from gay men and straight men. Thats just the medical facts.
You refuse to accept this. You don't live in reality hon, you live in a warped version where science is wrong and you are right, you silly old bat! why cant you accept the science?
Wonder if he would condemn the the hunky Jesus contest at all the gay
pride events where the gays scream profanities while pretending to be
Jesus?
whom?
Weak little souls...can't fight against their sins, so they're changing evil into good to fit their sinful lifestyles. It might make you feel better right now in your skin, but when you come before God and he asks you why you thought you could change His Words to fit your lifestyle, that you thought you had the right to tell God he wasn't right to create you a man or a woman, only because you liked flesh more than the Spirit and didn't try to fight against your sinful flesh, what are you going to tell Him? That He was wrong? How arrogant of you.
As a parent I know I love my children unconditionally. I know that even if they made some sort of horrible mistake I would still love them and never give up on them or abandon them. This is how I see God. I don't see him as vengeful and ready to condemn all even if they were to make mistakes. I don't see how he could love us so much that he would give his only son to save us, but then turn his back on us. I don't see him turning his back on any transgender person in the same way I don't see him turning his back on you. You say Transgender people are arrogant and saying that God made a mistake, but aren't you saying the same thing? How can you be so arrogant to assume that God didn't make them just the way they are? Be sure when you accuse others that you are not also in the same breath accusing yourself. We should all love each other as we would love ourselves.
celess21 - What an absolute bull crap.
How arrogant are you trying to force your archaic religious beliefs down the throats of those who don't believe in your "magical sky friend". Just STFU!
you need help
Celess21: *"... when you come before God and he asks you why you thought you could change His Words to fit your lifestyle ..."*
Ah! Good point! Just because a bible verse doesn't fit our desires or life style doesn't mean we change the bible. *This is important.* We can acknowledge sin and be cleansed even if we commit it 10,000 times a day every day.
It is important that we seek cleansing for ALL our sins, not just those that stick out in society. (E.g. Lev 19:19)
John 3:16 simply states that anyone that believes Jesus is messiah is saved. It doesn't add any other distinctions or requirements.
Nope, it was a boy
Physically, yes.
Vapid Vessel nope its a girl stop being a d*ck
Biologically you could still protect yourself. Being dressed/pretending to be a woman doesnt make you less physically male/strong.
Ignorance
No, but taking hormones and physically changing someone’s body does. Were you born under a rock?
Try opening a book, ya troll. HRT addresses these things. Nothing will addres the fact you were born out of the wrong hole.
HE is STILL a man.
True. Nobody can change whole-body DNA.
But if she walked up to you on the street would you call her "Mr" to her face? Or would you be polite and call her "miss"?
You are a perfect example of Christianity.....ignores admonitions against judgement, preaches and lives the old testament law that Jesus was supposedly there to abolish in favor of "Love your brother as you love God"...he had more than a few words on hypocrisy..How would he feel about this hypocrisy IN HIS NAME, no less...Guess you can answer when you are at the judgement bar you you just brought her to, eh? That's the TRUTH of HIS ministry, but you'll find that out a day short and can answer for all those you led down your path...I forgive you, but it's not me who needs to most...
No, SHE is A WOMAN! Jesus said man or woman you are all one in Christ. He also said to love thy neighbor as thyself. he also said he replaced the old law with new. To call yourself a christian is shameful! He teaches love not hate. Yet YOU sir... Are HATE, not LOVE.
A few years ago I felt the same. However, I did research and discovered I didn’t understand transgenders.
What is a woman? A woman is a human being.
What is a man? A man is a human being.
What makes up a human being?
Perhaps many years ago the YMCA displayed it best with it’s tringle…
Mind
Body
Spirit
Therefore there are three parts of a human being.
A mind, a body, and a spirit.
The body does not control the mind and the body does not control the spirit. So in answer to the question what is a woman? If you are speaking of the body we all know the answer. But the body is only one third of a human being.
The mind is more powerful than the body as it controls the body and causes it to act.
The spirit or soul is the life of the body and the mind. Jesus tells us when we go to heaven we neither marry or are given in marriage. So the soul is neither a woman or a man.
Therefore, though it is rare, a body of one gender can have the mind of the opposite gender. And which is more powerful? The answer is the mind. The mind is what causes a body to transition.
So what is a woman? Or what is a man?The answer is the mind of the human being. Is it male or is it female?
Who we all are is like love. It is impossible to describe but we know when we are in love just like we know who we are regardless of what body or shell we are in or what other people tell us.