What would you do
If I asked you to stop saying
Just one word?
One.
Would you look at me and laugh?
Would you spit the word at me?
Or maybe you’d say that old adage
About sticks and stones.
What is I said that this word
Just this one
Or maybe a few
Out of our vast vocabulary
Hurt?
Would you spit again?
Would you tell me I’m weak?
Would you tell me words
Are just words?
I wish my back was a stool
I wish my body a castle
I wish my heart an umbrella
and my arms a moat
I wish there were things I could say
I wish there were things I could do
That would simply be able
To keep you a float
There are things in this world
Monsters and demons
That wish to harm you
Wrapped in a human coat
When the wolves come howling
And scratching at your door
And you sit, shivering and scared
Remember these words I’ve wrote
There are things that will hurt us
Things that will make us cry
Things that will try to destroy us
But we can’t survive if we don’t try
There is light in this world
I know its hard to see
But all you need to do
Is turn your eyes to the sky
Even if you can’t see them
The lights are there
Shining brightly
A reminder to fly
When you hit rock bottom
When the floor is bed rock
There is only one way to go
There is no time to ask why
Warning: This post is dripping with sarcasm. Like, high levels that might be toxic.
“Defendant Toone denied Ms. Joganik’s request and stated that he did not want Ms. Joganik to wear female clothing in the park because ‘there are children around the pool’”. Children around the pool, won’t someone ever think of the children? When it comes to queer and trans* people, this is something that is played like a broken record as a reason we should never be visibly queer. What if some poor, hapless, innocent child sees these queer people? What will the kid think? How will it affect them?
The answer to this question is easy, it won’t. Most children that these parents are trying to protect are small infants or toddlers, many of whom won’t even remember the incident 10 minutes later. The worst the parent will get is “why is that ‘man’ wearing a dress?” or something of that nature. The simple answer is, “because they are a woman, not a man”. Most kids will take this and be done. If they are at that age where they play the why game for hours, it’s pretty simple to turn it around. Well, why are you a boy/girl/whatever?
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