Need to get things off my chest...
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transSometimes I wonder why people just don't get it. We're people too, right? So why are we treated like shit? Why do people consider us inhuman? Why do they want to take away our rights?
But most of all, why can't I just be accepted for who I am? An average, teenage boy. But I can't be what I want to be, because of all the disapproving people in the world. I can't stand up for myself. I'm sensitive; a lover, not a fighter. I can't handle the people, the people who don't understand what it takes to pretend to be something you're not. I want to live my life the way I want to live it, but if this trend continues I won't be able to hold a job when I grow up, I won't be able to walk down a street safely. I won't be able to do anything.
I want to be the boy I've always dreamt of being, always wished to be. But people just can't understand that. They think I'm just confused, perhaps a lesbian. But I'm not. (I prefer boys over girls anyways.) Perhaps they think it's just a phase I'm going through, and I'll get over it. But I don't think phases last for fifteen years.
I can't even tell people who I really am because I fear their reaction. Everyone does. No matter how kind and accepting people are, some just can't see a person who've they've always believe to be a girl, who's always acted like a girl, to really be a boy. Some even believe that if you don't have a penis, you're not a man, can't possibly be a man.
But why? Why, why, why? Why do people cling to the binary genders, believe you're what you were born to be, can't fathom the thought of not being what you physically are? Will there ever be a time where everyone can accept each other as being who they are?
I want to believe that people can accept others, despite the fact they rarely practice what they preach. I really, really do. I want to grow up and see people's thoughts change, even if it requires me stepping up to the plate to change the world.
But most of all, why can't I just be accepted for who I am? An average, teenage boy. But I can't be what I want to be, because of all the disapproving people in the world. I can't stand up for myself. I'm sensitive; a lover, not a fighter. I can't handle the people, the people who don't understand what it takes to pretend to be something you're not. I want to live my life the way I want to live it, but if this trend continues I won't be able to hold a job when I grow up, I won't be able to walk down a street safely. I won't be able to do anything.
I want to be the boy I've always dreamt of being, always wished to be. But people just can't understand that. They think I'm just confused, perhaps a lesbian. But I'm not. (I prefer boys over girls anyways.) Perhaps they think it's just a phase I'm going through, and I'll get over it. But I don't think phases last for fifteen years.
I can't even tell people who I really am because I fear their reaction. Everyone does. No matter how kind and accepting people are, some just can't see a person who've they've always believe to be a girl, who's always acted like a girl, to really be a boy. Some even believe that if you don't have a penis, you're not a man, can't possibly be a man.
But why? Why, why, why? Why do people cling to the binary genders, believe you're what you were born to be, can't fathom the thought of not being what you physically are? Will there ever be a time where everyone can accept each other as being who they are?
I want to believe that people can accept others, despite the fact they rarely practice what they preach. I really, really do. I want to grow up and see people's thoughts change, even if it requires me stepping up to the plate to change the world.
