In A Way, Eden's Death Was Both Suicide And Murder
For more on this story, read Her Name Was Edin by Erin In The Morning
Other people are going to report this story with more details than I am. A trans woman by the name of Eden is said to have committed suicide. She's from Saudi Arabia originally, but I'm sure she came to the States for the freedom to be able to become who she truly is. By all accounts, she was happy and had friends here.
As I understand it, her father is somewhat influential in Saudi Arabia and sent people to get her. She was sort of lured in under the guise that her family was worried about her and such. Then she started getting messages from the person she started to depend on. It would be better if she were a boy and kept all of the "trans things" inside of her. A bunch of BS garbage that we trans women hear.
I want to say it for the record. There's nothing wrong with Eden being trans. There's nothing wrong with anybody transitioning. It affects them personally, and most of the hate from people comes when they assign their own feelings to somebody else's transition. Like they'd never do it, so they can't understand why somebody else would. And of course, there's the religious aspect that probably was a major factor in Eden's story.
Eventually, she was back in her country living as a boy. At this point, we could even say that Eden was murdered by her family. That may sound harsh, but hear me out. Eden was a happy young trans woman, living her life and pursuing her dreams in this country. She was forced to be a boy by a family who wouldn't accept the girl. She was murdered.
At first, Eden coped. She tried to tell herself it wasn't so bad living the life of a boy, but then it started to get to her. It didn't take long, really. Then there were attempts to take hormones to feel normal again. Then there were the inspections that her mother made, checking her electronics and whether she had hormones. A lot of guilt and shame was thrown at her by her parents.
Think about it. She's already not living the life she wants to live, and now she has to feel guilt and shame that the way she feels inside is bad. With all due respect, this is where religious people have their heads up their asses. It's up to God to judge, and that's a message that resonates in some religious circles. Yet people think because they're of faith in that particular religion, it gives them the right to judge. That's not the God I know.
In any case, it got to be too much, and here's the second death of Eden. The family would look at it like their boy committed suicide. He wasn't strong enough to be who they wanted him to be, and in shame he killed himself. That's the way her shortsighted, uncaring family would look at it, and it makes me sad.
Call me harsh for saying her family murdered her, but I don't care. Eden was happy here in The States, and when she was forced to be a boy, she was effectively murdered once. It became official when the boy that the family thought she was killed himself. Congratulations, family. Now you've got nothing but a grave site.
This is the problem we're facing when people want to blame the wrongs of society on transgender people. This is what's going on. It's not our greed or our selfishness, it's trans people. Therefore, we must stop transitioning. We must eradicate transgenderism. That's the sort of rhetoric these people are now spewing out of their pie holes, and it disgusts me.
I don't mind somebody saying they don't understand trans people. I don't mind people not wanting to associate with trans people. What I mind is these people acting like somehow their lives are being ruined because trans people exist. What I mind is people saying that they must now destroy the lives of trans people to make their own selves feel comfortable.
There have been a few trans suicides in recent days as I write this, and they're going to continue. Why? Because of people who lay all these guilt trips and shame on somebody for transitioning. Yes, people really are born in the wrong body. That is the say that their very essence, their being, does not align with the body they have. They do not identify with the gender of the body they were born into, so they seek to line it up with how they feel inside.
Transgender people matter. We are often the most underemployed, under housed, maligned, beat up and bullied segment of society. We can become the punching bag of people, and it plays with our heads even as we transition. Eden was trying to make the most of her life in this country, but her family couldn't have it that way. They had to bring her back and basically kill her to be the boy that they wanted. Then, the boy killed himself.
What was accomplished? Another senseless transgender death. You think we'd have this figured out by now. It's 2023, and it feels like we're moving backwards when we were gaining so much ground. Ultimately, there will be trans acceptance, but we still have to work our way past the hate that's fueled by ignorance and misinformation.
