You understand.
Then you don’t.
It’s not proper English.
Even though Shakespeare used it?
“Are they made up?”- your pronouns
“Do you know any adults,
who do/use these?”
Why yes, I do.
Invalidation.
.
“It’s what your parents named you.”
They don’t even call me that, anymore.
I want it legally changed.
“But in your medicals it says…
we can’t use something else”
“I’m not sure I’m okay with this.”
I’ve know what I want it to be
for years now.
“But that doesn’t matter
until you get your diploma.”
I’m afraid
of being stuck like this.
“Can’t you just, wait??”
.
“So this friend of yours
Guy, girl, ?
I don’t understand,
simplify it for me,
what kind
of junk
do they have?”
“What do you have?-“
bc that’s what defines me/them
and you won’t accept
when I don’t tell you.
.
“I wouldn’t expect,
you to own this lace.”
“You’re using female mannerisms.”
“Why are you in this skirt?”
“Compared to what you’re wearing now,
you know,
you would look great
in a dress,
you can really
pull it off.”
I don’t feel comfortable,
in formal clothes anymore.
Unless they are a costume.
“-Why don’t you?”
“I’m on this side of
the mechitza
to be respectful”
But where should I really be.
Either way I dress,
I feel invalidated.
.
“You have mosquito bites,”
“-No you don’t”
Just don’t look down.
“You don’t like your chest?”
I can’t breath when I bind
“Surgery? Gross,”
“It’s ok _____, erase your memories
that I said or want this.”
“Why do you need this,
aren’t we all,
just
human?.”
Stop trying
to shut me up.