Wyandot Citizens Against Bigotry

12/29/2024

As the year draws to a close and another one opens please remember to take sides. Be vocal. Do not be silent about bigotry and injustice in our own community.

12/06/2024

This is important legal advice you should always remember. It’s simple.

Please Watch! Advice from experienced National Lawyers Guild attorneys.Thanks to Three Lyons Creative for helping the Detroit & MI NLG create this important...

12/03/2024

This holiday season, be sure to ask your elected representatives if they think marriage equality should be a thing.

A Michigan House GOP lawmaker certainly thinks so.

12/02/2024

An honest conversation about a second Trump admin that is expected to enact anti-LGBTQ+ policies and crack down on gender-affirming care. Dr. Asa Radix, on the future of trans health care and what we can do now.

The 19th spoke with Dr. Asa Radix, the new president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, about the importance of protecting gender-affirming care in a second Trump administration.

11/27/2024

Bigot DeWine quietly signed a bill this morning banning trans people from using the bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms that align with their gender identity in all public and private K-12 schools and colleges.

This will affect our community. It brings more hate to an already marginalized group.

If you consider yourself an ally of the LGBT community then you better speak up.

“It’s really not about the bathrooms. It’s about demonizing and frightening people.”

11/21/2024

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your ge****ls to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

11/16/2024

A huge part of bigotry is lying to people and giving them outright wrong information.

”100% of the people who died — the first thousand who had AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers,” Kennedy (falsely) told an audience of supporters on video.

Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services also has claimed that chemicals in water turn kids gay and refers to puberty blockers as “castration drugs.”

11/14/2024

Why yes, we do think bigotry in Wyandot County is f**kin’ lame and trans rights are human rights.

11/13/2024

Ohio Senate Republicans just passed a bill that requires all Ohio schools, public and private, including PRIVATE COLLEGES to adopt & enforce an anti-trans bathroom policy.

Includes schools like CCAD & Antioch, private colleges w a *majority LGBTQ* student body.

It’s always about small government until bigots take control. Then it’s them telling YOU what to do.

11/12/2024

We have resources for folks wondering how they should prepare for an upcoming bigoted administration.

This is an essential resource with key information about housing, healthcare, employment, name and gender marker changes.

It’s sponsored by the Ohio State Bar Foundation.

Download the Guide for yourself or view the PDF directly. You can also scroll down this webpage to find written text. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Equality Ohio Legal Clinic: 855-LGBT-LAW or email [email protected]

11/07/2024

Bigotry won the day. It’s sad, frustrating and scary. What you’re feeling right now is normal.

What you may be experiencing is a normal nervous system response to a threat. You are grappling with a sense of distrust, a lack of safety. How you have responded in the past may dictate how you are responding right now. You might also be oscillating between various stages. Again, this is a normal and valid response.

Your flight response is valid (wanting to leave the town, state, or country)
Your fight response is valid (building the resistance)
Your freeze response is valid (unable to move or do anything)
Your dissociative state is valid (feeling numb and foggy)
All of your feelings are valid

Additionally, this is what grief feels like. You are grieving. It is wild, untethered, loud, messy and sometimes explosive. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Just let it move through you and feel all of the feelings as they arrive. If you feel overwhelmed or completely disembodied, here are some embodiment practices:

Get outside.
Look up at the sky and feel into the vastness of space.
Lean against a tree.
Watch the leaves fall.
Listen to the birds sing.
Smell the crisp, fall air.
Sit by a body of water.
Go for a walk.
Spend time with your beloveds.
Spend time with your animals.
Cry.
Laugh.
Scream.
Sing.
Dance.
Listen to music.
Watch an old or new show.
Plan a trip.
Go for a drive.
Buy yourself a fancy coffee.
Get a new shirt.
Schedule a massage or acupuncture.
Talk to your neighbors.
Sit in silence.
Breathe.
Shake it all off.

Engage in whatever coping mechanisms feel grounding, supportive, nourishing, connecting or loving. Again, there is no right or wrong way to move through this. Just keep moving, even subtly. You are simply surviving this day.

But whatever you may do, please do not tell anyone that things will get better. Do not remind the grievers of the silver lining. We are uninterested in these things. We need to feel our anger, sadness, fear and disbelief.

If you feel like you need to say something, notice how you would feel if someone said it to you. It is not your job to curate or manage anyone else's emotional state. We get to have our feelings and our experiences. We are still here and breathing, with hearts beating (even though it might not feel like it), and we just need validation. So, if you feel that discomfort or sense of urgency to fix, just say "I hear you. I'm here." Or simply sit with us in silence. Sometimes we just need physical presence with no words.

Today is another very hard day. It feels heavy, dense, numbing and it's maybe still hard to see beyond our own two feet. But remember that we’re still here, walking beside you.