Anshel Bomberger

So honestly written.

Revisado: 03-09-25

I like Sally Field. This was delightful for me to listen to. Sally, you are a great writer, actress, and more.

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Brave!

Revisado: 01-26-25

I am so proud of you for doing the right thing, no matter how frightening. You are my hero!.

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Brave on so many levels.

Revisado: 01-18-25

Gypsy, you are brave on so many levels. Controlled at home, with your mother and home environment as your childhood prison. Then prison for doing whatever it took to get the control to stop. You didn’t have an arsenal of remedies to get away from your abuser. In some ways you were living in a Stockholm Syndrome, where you bonded with your abuser, because you didn’t know any different and you did not have a choice. I was adopted and I have an identical twin. Our mom dictated every aspect of our live. Our clothes, our hair, our shoes, our friends, our activities, etc. we were put on display at every opportunity she got. I always thought it was some sort of Münchausen syndrome by proxy. It was some sort of personality disorder. Narcissism mixed with Borderline Personality Disorder, you know, the Borderline being the, “I hate you, don’t leave me!” I went into the Army to get away from her. My twin married young to get away from her. In the end, I realized how much I meant to my mom, the only mother we knew. I came out and fell under the LGBTQI+ umbrella. She immediately terminated contact and would say, ‘When you are willing to change, I will change.’ It meant her having control over whom I love, whom I was sexual with, and how my gender identity showed up. When she died, she gave me, ‘One-dollar and my contempt, for reasons only known to the family.’ I asked my adopted brother, whom was the Personal Representative, to not just hand me a buck. I insisted on a check. I put that check into a frame as a reminder I was worth much more than just a dollar. Today, my lot in life is being an advocate for LGBTQI+ persons that have lost family after they came out. What you have been through is so much worse than I went through. PTSD is PTSD, each of our experiences are different, yet familiar. I have learned each of our pain is not a contest when it comes to how our limbic systems are triggered and how our brain and body react. I celebrate you as a teacher to others. For someone just having a Second Grade education, you are bright and intelligent. I am so proud of your work. I wish the best for you. Thank you again for helping so many others.

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Patience, Faith, Reward

Revisado: 06-17-23

I purchased this eBook, because I needed to hear Judy’s voice as she recalled her own words.

I too have a son and he is gay. I have lived as a lesbian and now as a trans masculine human ‘being.’

Judy, your words struck me throughout. I once lived in Casper and worked for a short time for KCWY-TV. I know of the winds you spoke of.

I live in the mountains of Colorado (Georgetown, CO).

I was struck that you shared you were a Job’s Daughter (Patience, Faith, Reward). What I learned from those words from the time I was twelve to the time of receiving my majority at eighteen have never left me.

During times of hate (yes, I have been called creepy by members of my synagogue and was Torah thumped by my own rabbi, has taught me to see the spark of the divine in everyone; including those whose cruelty toward made me feel like I needed a bag over my head. When I met with the rabbi and one woman that shamed me in front of the congregation, I was given the message that if I didn’t look the way I did, no one would make fun of me to my face. I asked them how a blind person would see me? Not for my tattoos or changing body; but for how I treated people. I have always looked someone in their eyes to see their soul, not their hairstyle, tattoos, style of dress, what kind of cars they drive or how big of a house they have.

Near the end of our meeting, I explained that how I dress, what bathroom I decide on, is about me; not to make anyone else feel better.

I explained that my tattoos were my form of cutting and it was either doing that, or taking my own life.

My adopted mom gave me one dollar and her contempt when she died. It was to write me out of her life and Will. The dollar was so I would not contest anything. I didn’t want money, I wanted her acceptance.

The last thing I said during my meeting with my rabbi and the one congregant was this, ‘This is exactly why I love dogs more than people. Dogs have never treated me the way people have.’

I have an identical twin. She is heterosexual and it pains her that I have never been prissy and had the desire to play house while growing up or wanting to do as she and our mom wanted. Our adult life have been bouts of her going away for decades at a time. She just couldn’t handle how I was living. In 2023 I had to go away. She lives in Florida and stated that what Gov. DeSantis was doing was not about me and what was happening in Florida would not affect me in Colorado. At the time, the Gov. Polard (a Governor that was also a gay man), made Colorado a sanctuary State for transgender people. I knew the ‘Don’t say Gay,’ the book bans, and Drag Queen laws would cause other States to do the same. Even if I wanted to go to Florida to see my twin ever again, I risked being arrested for whatever bathroom I used. I knew I risked being denighed treatment if I had a medical emergency.

The work you, your husband, and the Matthew Shepard Goundation is doing is saving lives.

A few years ago I went to a fundraising dinner in Denver for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. I met you and your husband. There were so many people. I thanked you for the work you are doing to repair the world one person and moment at a time.

G-d bless you for your strength, dedication, and abilities to do what you are doing for the LGBTQI+ communities. I know that during tough times you are saying, ‘Patience, Faith, Reward.’

Anshel Bomberger,
Georgetown, CO

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Anti-LGBTQI+ Ignorance (Must Read)

Revisado: 05-01-23

This text is a text to educate anyone that believes in the religious rhetoric of a human being being all male or all female based on biblical misfortune We as mammals and human beings are not all male or all female regarding our chemistry, mix of androgens, estrogens, and how our brains are wired before we are born. This is a text that the ignorant anti-LGBTQI+ legislators (and their supporters) should read. It shows anyone's ignorance and hate by not taking people as is. After reading and studying the facts through science offered in this text, it made me realize the law makers have no clue on how they are harming people with hateful legislation. I am grateful I found d this text. What should be banned in schools is the Bible. This text should be taught in every biology class in 6 - 12 grades. That way, maybe someone will not feel as if their bodies and urges to be their authentic selves will not be illegal or suppressed. That sort of oppression is what leads people to suicide. Thank you Gina Rippon for saving people's lives by offering science to help many understand our biology. -- Anshel Bomberger, Trans Masculine (He/Him/His), LGBTQI+ Advocate. Please visit: Anti-Hate (Wars) on Flipboard.

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