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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?
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