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In Buddhism Everyone Is Equal

4/15/2023

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​​"There are many religions out there that I couldn't follow because it goes against who I am as a transgender being. 
There is only ONE religion out there in the world that I COULD follow because it's ultimate teachings about humanity and love is unconditional.
And that is in Buddhism.
It is Buddhism that in the eyes of humanity, we are all equal!"
​- Kaneda Yoshida

When I was younger, my parents tried to humiliate me in front of a Cambodian monk, and they said in Khmer, "My child is gay (katheoy) and it's shameful." This monk said to my parents, "Gay (katheoy) people are people, nonetheless."

As a way to tell them to not treat me with such contempt. 

When I was a bit older, my friends invited me to a Christian sermon as a chance or a way to prove that Christianity was going to liberate me and help me quell my identity crisis.

I had already studied and read the Holy Bible front and back.

However, after disclosing that I was bisexual to the preacher, he judged me, called me a sinner, and the preacher banned me from entering their place of worship.

He felt that because I was LGBTQ and that I kept asking him questions against the religion which was seen as blasphemous. Christianity and Catholism were the two disappointing religions that I had stayed away from ever since. It taught me nothing.
As an adult, I was never rejected by Buddhism. As a matter of fact, I was raised Buddhist but I never really paid attention to what Buddhism or its teachings had to offer. One of the first LGBTQ films that I have ever watched was not "Boys Don't Cry" but instead, it was, "Beautiful Boxer", a true story and event about a transgender woman named Parinya.

Of all the LGBTQ films out there in existence, "Beautiful Boxer" was the film that I related to the most, it was so close to the Khmer culture. I laughed and cried with this movie. What saddens me a bit is that I share this film to others here in the United States but most people are reluctant to watch it because it is a Thai original language film and most people are too lazy, rather ignorant, to read the subtitles.

They are missing out on the entire picture that makes up what it is like to be transgender growing up in the Khmer and Thai culture. It's a total human experience all on its own. Parinya had it a bit easier than me growing up. She didn't have to deal with abuse as much but more of the pain living in dysphoria. Each of our stories is different but that suffering is all the same. I own this movie in its original title and language. I understand Thai so it's good enough for me.


So that inspired me to study Buddhism and eventually religions across the world. I found spiritualism, or Agnostism, to be one that I can identify and relate to much more than any other.
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This is Kodo Nishimura and his story is very rare so I wish to share it on My Trans Life Blog post. However, we do have one out of almost two things in common, that we are a member of the LGBTQ,  he is cisgender gay whereas I am transgender bi-sexual, and that we both pupils of Buddhism and students of cosmetology, we do makeup and are professional MUAs.

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    Kaneda Yoshida (male pronouns: he/him/his) is a transgender activist, advocate, a trans brother to the Transgender Community and a fierce protector of trans youth. He is the original non-profit founder/leader of the Trans-Cis Alliance Coalition Organization (T.C.A.C, pronounced Tee-Kah). He actively and closely works with other LGBTQIA+ entities to bring about inclusion, intersectionality, diversity, justice, and equality for both the sex and gender diverse communities by campaigning, petitioning, and lobbying for individuals who face discrimination in schooling systems and in the workplace, rejection and abuse at home, as well as hate and violence in public spaces against LGBTQIA+ individuals. He has lobbied against anti-trans politicians, as well as capital institutions within the military, law enforcement, and city council government systems as well as took a stand against any entities that targets the health, livelihood, and well-being of LGBTQIA+ individuals.

    Kaneda Yoshida is actively fighting for transgender youth in the Unacceptable States who threatens the basic human rights for transgender youths and their families to receive support, live, and thrive in regards to receiving gender-reaffirming medical care, participating in recreational activities in schooling systems, to facing systematic injustices and discrimination by backing larger LGBTQIA+ entities to stand up against opposing parties that targets transgender youth and their families. He has been actively involved and collaborated with the American Civil Liberation Union (ACLU), Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), GLAAD, Trans Equality Now, Trevor Project, and many other organizations to raise awareness, funding, support, petition, and maintain civil rights for transgender individuals on a State, County, National, and Federal level and to keep transgender individuals as a protected class. His main purpose is to protect and preserve the history and the livelihood of all LGBTQIA+ identified individuals and their basic human rights to exist in public places and live their authentic lives without social oppression and censorship.

    Kaneda is currently pursuing his ongoing degree in Sex & Gender Studies at CCOA in San Francisco among other educational and fundamental endeavors. His most current activist role in 2023 is advocating for intersex individuals and the cover up and denial of unconsented medical procedures perform on intersex infants by raising social awareness and educating others while abolishing the myth of intersex individuals, and the stigmas around those who are or were born intersex. His other active role is educating others on sensitivity training especially to parents who are raising a transgender child as well preventing transgender suicide among today's transgender youths.

    To find out more about Kaneda Yoshida's past and current transgender activist activities, here are some resources of where he has been involved and collaborated with other LGBTQIA+ community alongside LGBTQIA+ allies in the State of Nevada and the State of California: Special Features

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