How my group of special friends saved a life ...

Last week, a young trans man tried to commit suicide by jumping off a motorway bridge. Lucky, he has some good friends who managed to stop him doing it and took him to the local hospital for help, while also continuing to help him.

You may think this is just a random thing that happened, but no. This person I am talking about is a friend of mine. The friends I am talking about are my close group of friends who helped him. This is real life, not some made up story that I made for this blog post.

The young man is fine now BTW. Although the hospital couldn’t really do anything as they have no space to keep him in (Thanks Tories) he stopped at the house of the leader of a local LGBT+ group who I also call a friend.

This highlights how important friends are, I can count on my hand who the friends I consider close, who are not family, who I would do anything for. They are Carol, Marlie-Mai, Jack, Ryan and Conner.

While I have other friends, none come as close to me as those beautiful people. 4 of them are in the LGBT+ Community and the other is a neighbour who I have become very close to and is an ally. In fact I think of her as the mother I never had.

This highlights a very important point. As I read in the excellent book “The Gender Games” By Juno Dawson. Boyfriends/Girlfriends come and go, but friends are for life. Those 5 people will be my friends for life. They all just get me. Everyone needs friends like these wonderful people.

I will end this point in a quote from the book above, which I think every trans person needs to hear. Remember Juno is a Trans Woman herself.

“You’re going to be fine; you’re going to be more than fine; you’re going to be a fucking supernova. Hang in there.”