Something that really saddens me seeing all these discriminatory, oppressive, and straight-up genocidal anti-lgbtq laws being passed in the us (and also just how normalized it is to be homo/queer/transphobic even though those against us would say otherwise) is that… all these attempts to erase us from existence aren’t going to stop lgbtq people from existing…

Like as long as society has in place a rigid set of norms that people expect others to religiously adhere to; as long as people say to others there are things they can’t do simply because they were born one way or another; and as long as humans simply just exist there will always be those who feel they don’t align to the norms society seems sooo hellbent on putting in place…

Like the beautiful thing about humans is that every person has different wants and desires and hopes and dreams, and that also extends to people feeling as though they may want to be different from the “norm” of what maybe a majority adheres to… but so many hateful people want to erase this beauty of difference and vibrance and colour and freedom…

What they’re doing isn’t creating a “proper society” where everyone just so happens to perfectly mesh into their conservative fever dreams, what they’re doing is creating an oppressive and dystopian environment where certain people will grow up feeling alienated and ostracized for being different…

And sure, some people can maybe hide it and try to “fit in” but what’s the point of living if you can never feel true to yourself?? If you’re constantly living a fake life, like we as a society tell our children to always try to “be true to yourself” and to “pursue your hopes” but then society goes “oh you can’t be like that because you were born this way which makes it wrong!!”

I know firsthand just how terrible it feels like to be someone who couldn’t be true to themselves, to be someone who was always trying to fit in with society… I thought growing up I would never grow facial hair like everyone said boys always do, there were so many times I saw beautiful women and wondered if I would ever be as pretty as them, and so many more things… but for my entire childhood I never let it out, I just tried to “blend in” with society and “act as one of the boys” because I saw how those who strayed from these awful norms society has put in place were treated, even growing up in a fairly “progressive” area (which makes me feel even more for those who grew and are growing up in worse places). So deep down I always just felt so… wrong… I was a broken child for so long even if everything seemed ok to those around me and it took sooo much time of suffering and depression for me to slowly but FINALLY start to be who I truly am…

And what makes it all even sadder is that the us is still somehow a better place for lgbtq people than so many other places in the world right now…

I know its probably been said many times before but it’s just something that’s always been swelling inside me and I just desperately wanted to get it out…