Author Unknown.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody
will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight
through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before
her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because
they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years
into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of
being taken away from the two fathers who are the only
loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt
me.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just
weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too
much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us
when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for
two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I
should use if I want to avoid getting the management
called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the
children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I
am an unfit mother because I now live with another
woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the
support system grow suddenly cold and distant when
they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support
system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I
grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to
teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do
that.

I am the woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating
me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I
could be a much better person if I didnt have to
always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because
I don’t believe, but because they closed their doors
to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs
most, love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends im a
lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.