Yet what's done is done. I posted it, so I'll have to live with it all the same.
Speaking of things I might regret, I wrote a song today. Loosely speaking, it follows the tune of Jamie T's Don't You Find, and is, essentially, about how celebrating the recent US Supreme Court ruling is good and all, yet the fight isn't over yet.
I called it "The Next Step", and it goes like this:
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
Prejudice,
Suicide,
Barely getting by.
Polyamorous,
Trans life,
People need open eyes.
So much hate
So much pain
Hurtful things they do and say.
Open the gate
It's never too late
To let us have our way.
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
Aren't we human?
We've got plights.
We want to live our lives.
Yet we've been
Horrified
So many left to die.
What d'ya say
We fight today
And when we're done
Everyone
Will be free to live alive.
I did my best to convey the message. That allowing this is a great victory for human rights, since it is going to massively help lessen the discrimination we face...yet at the same time, this is not the time to turn a blind eye to those who still have a hard time.
I know there's plenty of others whose voices aren't heard as much as they need to be. People will, probably, eventually figure out on their own the general types of sexual orientation, that there's more than straight and gay, that there's a whole spectrum. It's becoming more and more widespread that people accept Bisexuals, but there's still a lot of fighting there.
Asexuals still have it pretty tough I know for a fact, even in places that are generally friendly to other members of the LGQT+ community. (I know because I've got a fair number of friends who speak from experience. It's particularly bad for females who're asexual, thanks to reasons that are fairly easy to guess in spite of how despicable and frankly horrifying they are.)
However, while they still need more than what they've got, they're on their way to having their own victories, since the victory for gay marriage is at least loosely a victory for them as well.
The song briefly went into naming a specific group that frankly gets pretty much no positive representation outside maybe a rare occasional fictional depiction, and that's the polyamory group of people. Pretty much all I know about them comes from people I know in such a relationship (not exactly friends, but close associates) and reading TVTropes's notes on the subject. Butstill, I've always felt for my entire life really that if someone loves more than one person, it is fundamentally WRONG that they be FORCED to choose between one or the other, and should such a thing be mutually agreeable, the option of sharing should be there.
Yet me not being a member of that group (obviously), I can't speak for them that much, just like I can't really speak for Bisexuals, Pansexuals, Asexuals, you get the idea. Maybe that's a flaw in the song. But I decided I'd do what I could, and talk about what I DO have experience with: my status as a transwoman.
And while the lyrics above are generic enough largely to fit most of those, there's the obvious trans lean with things like mentioning suicide. (41% rate average ATTEMPTED suicide. Probably much higher considered. This is an already-alarming statistic without knowing how many people attempt it. When you realize that the number elsewhere is well below 5%, maybe even .05% [I forget what the study said], then you realize just how. dang. many. of us are pushed beyond the breaking point and die.)
We desperately need to have the fight continue. Now more than ever.
Speaking of things I might regret, I wrote a song today. Loosely speaking, it follows the tune of Jamie T's Don't You Find, and is, essentially, about how celebrating the recent US Supreme Court ruling is good and all, yet the fight isn't over yet.
I called it "The Next Step", and it goes like this:
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
Prejudice,
Suicide,
Barely getting by.
Polyamorous,
Trans life,
People need open eyes.
So much hate
So much pain
Hurtful things they do and say.
Open the gate
It's never too late
To let us have our way.
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
Can't speak for all,
Yet hear my call,
My voice's too small,
It falls to you now;
What d'ya say
About today
A good day
To be gay
Throw a parade
For what you made?
Yet there's fights
For our rights
You had yours,
Let me have mine.
Open doors
For an open time.
Aren't we human?
We've got plights.
We want to live our lives.
Yet we've been
Horrified
So many left to die.
What d'ya say
We fight today
And when we're done
Everyone
Will be free to live alive.
I did my best to convey the message. That allowing this is a great victory for human rights, since it is going to massively help lessen the discrimination we face...yet at the same time, this is not the time to turn a blind eye to those who still have a hard time.
I know there's plenty of others whose voices aren't heard as much as they need to be. People will, probably, eventually figure out on their own the general types of sexual orientation, that there's more than straight and gay, that there's a whole spectrum. It's becoming more and more widespread that people accept Bisexuals, but there's still a lot of fighting there.
Asexuals still have it pretty tough I know for a fact, even in places that are generally friendly to other members of the LGQT+ community. (I know because I've got a fair number of friends who speak from experience. It's particularly bad for females who're asexual, thanks to reasons that are fairly easy to guess in spite of how despicable and frankly horrifying they are.)
However, while they still need more than what they've got, they're on their way to having their own victories, since the victory for gay marriage is at least loosely a victory for them as well.
The song briefly went into naming a specific group that frankly gets pretty much no positive representation outside maybe a rare occasional fictional depiction, and that's the polyamory group of people. Pretty much all I know about them comes from people I know in such a relationship (not exactly friends, but close associates) and reading TVTropes's notes on the subject. Butstill, I've always felt for my entire life really that if someone loves more than one person, it is fundamentally WRONG that they be FORCED to choose between one or the other, and should such a thing be mutually agreeable, the option of sharing should be there.
Yet me not being a member of that group (obviously), I can't speak for them that much, just like I can't really speak for Bisexuals, Pansexuals, Asexuals, you get the idea. Maybe that's a flaw in the song. But I decided I'd do what I could, and talk about what I DO have experience with: my status as a transwoman.
And while the lyrics above are generic enough largely to fit most of those, there's the obvious trans lean with things like mentioning suicide. (41% rate average ATTEMPTED suicide. Probably much higher considered. This is an already-alarming statistic without knowing how many people attempt it. When you realize that the number elsewhere is well below 5%, maybe even .05% [I forget what the study said], then you realize just how. dang. many. of us are pushed beyond the breaking point and die.)
We desperately need to have the fight continue. Now more than ever.
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