The rest of
today's classes passed
in much the same way
as my first did.
Slowly, I became
buried underneath the mountain
of rude comments,
and wrong assumptions,
and absolute idiocy.
Is that a boy or a girl?
Why'd they let him
into this school?
Who's she?
One particularly cruel senior
even dared to say it
to my face
when I denied being
male, as he
had originally assumed:
"Trannies don't belong
in a place like this,
now do they?"
I don't think he realized
when he insulted me
in such a way
how pathetic it made him look -
and how petty
and how ignorant
and how utterly despicable.
But he had to realize
the effect it had on me.
It must have been obvious
just from looking at me
in that moment
how devastated I already was -
and how heartbroken
and how lonely
and how utterly destroyed.
I had never wanted to be
this kind of person,
the one who was
constantly picked on
and bullied
for being different.
Just because you can't
put a label on me
and call me
a boy
or a girl
doesn't make me
any less
human -
because deep down
in all of our hearts,
I believe that we all -
you, her,
and even I, myself -
are the same.
I wouldn't say that
if it weren't true -
because I would never willingly
relate myself
to a monster such as
you.
After school,
I hurry home
and collapse onto my bed,
completely exhausted.
I have no tears left to cry
because I'd cried them all before
at other schools,
because other people
had made rude comments
and had acted like
ignorant pigs.
When she gets home
from work,
my mother comes
straight to my room,
sits down on the edge
of my bed,
and rubs my back until
I finally
fall asleep.
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Teen Fiction"There are a million shades of grey between their black and their white - but no one ever cares to see them." In a world with a limited view of gender, Cam Shills struggles to come to terms with their identity as neither male nor female, a shade of...
