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dear conversionists,

 
 
 
i'm not going to reel off a collection of data  
 
because you would feel it proves the point  
behind your radical notions,  
 
i hear particular names while reading articles  
of conversion therapy day in and day out;
 
echoes of leelah alcorns tumblr letter
going around in the back of my mind  
as the world continues to make it harder
and near enough impossible for those
who seek a better way of living,
 
this is nothing new  
since we have been existing
longer than you may  
have realised,
 
there are  
bronze age drawings
and figurines
describing a
third sex gender
without  
distinguishing
their way  
of living,
 
in four  
hundred BCE  
a greek physician  
hippocrates  
talks of scythian  
priests and healers
 
who spoke like females  
while carrying out  
what was considered
female work
back then,
 
today  
 
the brick
that stands
as london's  
first gender  
identity clinic
is over fifty  
years old,
 
so all i  
simply ask  
is this
 
what don't
you understand  
about nothing  
needing to be  
fixed at all?
 
what do you fear  
about identities
co-existing peacefully  
beside each  
other?
 
when will
you realise
 
we have
always been
here in  
the dark
 
living  
beside
you
 
before
the light
finally
shined
upon
us,
 
do you
realise  
 
you are
throwing  
out
 
ancient
history  
 
that is
finally being
brought to  
light?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Written by _feral
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Author's Note
photograph taken in central london
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