How to Respond

To listen to a witness is to become one.
--- Elie Wiesel

Once hearing what happened, how it happened, and the toll on people, we can't react with silence. To listen and not witness is to become a silent partner.

I'm reading a book about the transgendered community written by a woman who identifies herself as transsexual. As I read and learn more about the fluidity of gender, I am a witness to the rigidity of society.