In today’s world, especially in the USA (where I live), we are facing a great evil. This evil is trying to silence anyone LGBTQ+ (with a primary focus on transgender people as of the writing of this post, but they will be coming after the others soon enough).
First, a little about me. Who am I? I’m Holly Mae Wolfe. I live in the USA. I’m transgender. I was assigned male at birth but inside, I was never male. Nobody forced me to be trans. Nobody convinced me to be trans. Nobody tried to brainwash me into being trans. What happened was the opposite actually. Throughout my childhood, everyone was doing everything they could to keep me from being transgender. At that time, I had no vocabulary to explain how I felt, the adults never spoke of such stuff.
I felt broken, I felt alone, I felt like the entire world hated me for something I had no say in. This led to some troubling times in my teenage years where I almost didn’t make it to adulthood. But, I survived.
Until my 30s, I tried my best to “be the man” I was supposedly supposed to be. I suffered so much living a lie. Finally, in my 30s, I had come back to “troubling times” and had to make a decision: Life as a trans woman, or death. I chose life. For the first time in my miserable existence, I was happy. I felt “correct”. However, the world still seemed to hate me. I had to learn to not care what the world thought of me. This is my life, my body, my choices. Let me live in peace and I will reciprocate.
During my journey in my 30s, I realized that there is so much suffering in the LGBTQ+ community. It seems there has always been great suffering. I decided in my late 30s that I should devote some of my time to help the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Try to reduce suffering. Try to help people succeed. Try to make sure people realize that they are not alone and that they are loved. If you are a part of this community, you may feel unloved, but never forget that you are worthy of life and love, and you are loved. If nobody else will love you, I will love you.
Enough about me, why does this website exist? I decided to blend three things: a blog, and a store, and a form of charity. The blog is for me to rant and rave and talk about stuff that’s going on or just whatever I feel like in the moment. The store is there to help provide me a side income to help reduce my suffering and to provide charity to others in the community to help reduce their suffering. A portion of all profits from the store will be used in some manner to help the LGBTQ+ community and/or people within the community. The amount of profits used and what they will be used for will vary so I can’t give specifics right now, but it will always be as much charity as I can. Sometimes this will be 100% of the profits, sometimes it may be lower like 50% of the profits. However, at least 50% of all profits will be used to help the LGBTQ+ community and/or the people within it. This may sound like a shameless plug of my store, but, if you can afford it, buy from it. If you know people who can afford it, get them to buy from it. Spread the word, let others know. The more than can be sold, the more profits will be made, and the more I can help the LGBTQ+ community financially. Plus, you get cool merchandise lol. Win win.
Before I wrap this up, a little word about the times we are living in right now. If you are in the LGBTQ+ community, stay strong. Nothing ever remains the same for long. Be sure to remember the others in the community as well. Be a good person, not only to others, but to yourself as well. Take care of yourself. Love yourself. Get enough sleep. Get enough time to relax and heal. We must never give up, because there will always be people like us in the future and if we give up, we are also giving up on them. We must strive to make this world loving and accepting of them so that their suffering is reduced. They may already exist as children, or they maybe aren’t even born yet, but they will someday have to deal with the world. Do you want them to have to suffer like you have? Like I have? Live we all have? I for one wish only the best for the future generations. I may never get to see the fruits of my labor, but when I die, I want to go out knowing that I tried my best. Be strong, be loving, be there.