For today’s post, I am doing something a little bit different. I am scheduled to fly on January 22 with some friends to the March for Life event that is held annually in Washington, DC. This year will be my first time at the March for Life, and it was the first time I considered it as a possibility, even though I have always wanted to go.
In November 2025, I had discussed it in a board meeting with the other members of the Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance. Our group is planning an event that night. See our website: https://www.rainbowprolife.org/ for details on attending.
However, I am nervous about the travel aspect of this trip. First of all, only yesterday I was made aware of the new law of a REAL ID being required to fly on airplanes. With less than two weeks before the trip, I won’t have time to apply for a REAL ID and receive it in time. However, I should still be permitted to fly by bringing all the required documentation to prove my identity, residence, and citizenship. I have my original birth certificate, social security card, and will print my lease and renters’ insurance at a print shop next week.
As it turns out, I don’t have any mail delivered to my current address and am still receiving mail at my mom’s place. There is also the increasingly digital world we live in, such as the fact that utility bills, bank statements, W-2s, and other documents are all digital PDF files that I have to go to FedEx or Copy-Rite in Lee’s Summit to get printed. As an aside, I could write an entire post about the reasons I don’t have a working printer at home, nor do I have a chance because of my insistence on using only Linux and Free and Open Source Software.
By the time I get to the airport, I will have all the documentation to prove anything I need, so they should let me on the plane. However, that is only one aspect of this trip that makes me nervous.
I am a little bit worried about the TSA body scanners and pat-downs that I will have to endure to be allowed to fly. For most people, this is probably not an issue because most are passable as either a male or a female. The agents have to select which mode the machines scan the body, and there are certain things they expect. However, for transgender people like me, our bodies do not match what machines or humans expect to see.
I never changed my name or gender marker legally, and so they will probably scan me as a male in the machine, then the machine will think I have something strange in my chest because of my boobs. Yet they can’t scan me as a female either, because then it will detect my penis, which I could never afford to get removed. But beyond that, I am just nervous about how the agents will treat me because they could be people who don’t like transgender people and might harass me.
With all these fears and doubts, you might wonder why I still want to go to the March for Life. I want to go because I am the Token Transgender person of the Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance. We are not your average Pro-Life Organization, and this will be the biggest event I have participated in with them so far.
The following is the first draft of an essay/speech I have prepared to explain who I am and why I think the LGBTQIA+ community should be involved in the Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice debate on Abortion.
Why I am a Pro-Life Transgender Woman
My name is Chastity, and I am here to represent the Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance as well as the Transgender people specifically.
Many people believe that the Pro-Life Movement depends on a specific branch of Christianity that is full of people who hate gay and transgender people. The media and the Pro-Abortion lobby continue to promote this lie because the last thing they want is for us to all work together.
Being Pro-Life is about protecting the lives of the most innocent group of humans: those who have done nothing wrong because they haven’t even been born yet. Those who choose to let these children live are making the statement that they should be allowed to live their lives and do what they were made to do, whether or not we agree with the people that they will become. Therefore, the Pro-Life position is ultimately Pro-Choice by allowing these babies to be born and make their choices, for better or worse.
On the contrary, the Pro-Choice position cannot in any way respect the choices or bodily autonomy of humans because the Pro-Choice philosophy ultimately says it would have been completely okay to murder them in the womb. The only choice offered by those claiming to be Pro-Choice is Abortion. When it comes to choice over who to vote for in elections, whether to homeschool children, or choosing to vaccinate these children or not, they often do not respect the choice of the parents.
I speak as an Asexual Transgender person who will not Procreate. I have no financial or social reason for being Pro-Life. I am also not associated with a particular religion. However, I do follow the Golden Rule above all principles and find value in the teachings of Jesus, as many others do. Yet, I speak and write my opinions as part of the Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance, as well as an individual who knows quite clearly that people like me are those most likely to be killed both before and after birth.
I do not have the power to make the world understand the unique experience of being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, or Asexual. However, what I can do is tell you that I see parallels between the hate crimes against the Rainbow people and the unborn babies.
Gay people have historically been murdered, denied housing, employment, and disowned by friends and family. Moreover, they have been accused of being a danger to children.
Transgender people are currently experiencing what Gay people did years ago. We are murdered or arrested just because we look different or because we used the “wrong” restroom, even if it does match our biological sex. More often than not, we are told that our identity is not “real” but merely a mental illness that can only be cured by murdering us or sending us to conversion therapy until we commit suicide from hopelessness and rejection.
However, much to my disappointment, I have seen many of the LGBTQIA+ people embrace a Pro-Choice philosophy that says it is okay to murder the unborn for any reason or no reason given at all. Ultimately, I reject that anyone has the right to murder anyone, whether born or unborn, male or female, Jew or Gentile, gay or straight, black or white.
I believe that the only reason the LGBTQIA+ mostly embraces the false Pro-Choice promises is to respect their bodily autonomy. They can even get some services at Planned Parenthood, but at a price of working with the enemy, which is the actual danger to children, because it makes a profit from killing them. For many of us, the Pro-Abortion message is the only one we hear, because we have not been welcome in Church nor seen Christians who act as Jesus taught them to.
If the mainstream Cisgender Heterosexual Pro-Life people and the LGBTQIA+ community worked together and remembered who the real enemy is, it would lead to a much safer world for all of us. There are many misunderstandings based on false information. People like me and the others in Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance are a bridge to help the two sides see that we are not enemies by nature, but because we have been given the wrong messages by those who profit from confusing us to win elections or make money from killing us.
And despite what you may have heard, the Pro-Life movement is the greatest ally that the LGBTQIA+ community can have, because we are at higher risk for being aborted due to supposed “genetic defects,” which can actually explain a lot of the causes of why people are Gay, Transgender, or Intersex.
You may not know much about my community, nor do you have to agree with me about everything. But I am here today to tell you that as long as we agree that it is wrong to kill the most innocent people before they have a chance to life their life, I think we can come to a better understanding over time and bridge the divide between the Rainbow people and the rest of the Pro-Life movement.
For more writing on LGBTQIA+ topics and Abortion, you may be interested in my free online book/webpage here:
Chastity White Rose 
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