If you’ve never ventured down this road; please don’t tell me which path to take!
If you’ve never stood where I stand; please don’t tell me which choices to make.
If you’ve never had to hide; please don’t tell me to come out.
If you’ve never known the pain I feel; please don’t tell me what it’s all about.
If you’ve never had to hope; please don’t tell me what I need.
If you’re not seeking at all; please don’t tell me which voice to heed.
If you think that this is a choice; please understand that you are wrong.
If you think that these needs are merely wants; please listen hard and long.
If you say you accept me; please understand today.
If you really want to know me then you’ll listen to what I say.
If you determine who and what I am — by your standards you define.
Then your beliefs about the person I am have superseded mine.
For if that one sad fact is only what you see as true…
Then being trans is less about me and really more about you!
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If
If is the smallest word yet has the largest meaning in the world...personally I pass judgement on no one as I have to stand before GOD some day & answer for myself..I think I am in deep doodoo
I dont think so, Papa.
I bet you'll be just fine. As for this poem, it hits me where I live.
Hugs, Drea.
Well said!
Beautifully put.
Thank you
Abby
I am in joyful tears....
...each succeeding picture you post for your signature is breathtakingly beautiful and so representative of the journey you've given me to the privilege to observe. Such a peace that I can only dream about. Much love to you, Abigail my dear!!!!!!!!
Love, Andrea Lena
If...
...only those who needed to, would read this poem and understand.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Thank you,'Drea,
'for expressing the thoughts of so many of us ,so eloquently.I cannot think of anyone
who is not in our situation who could express themselves as you have done.
May God bless you.
ALISON
I do agree totally!
Long winded, but I do agree totally!
Aloha, Deanna August
It's galling to me...
That people who claim not to be among us, not to be one of us and worse yet not to understand why we would want those things so dear to our being, should have the temerity to advise us on what to want and how to live. But worst, absolutely worst, are those who pompously give us their permission to be who we are.
To them I quote Yosemite Sam: "Back off, Varmint!"
Ole
We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!
Gender rights are the new civil rights!
Yiddish saying
"IF" my grandmother had balls, she'd have been my grandfather.
Be all woman-my son!
I'm sure you know this author very well and the poem.
'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Queens—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all of us count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of dance and twirl,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—much more than that—you’ll be a woman, my girl!
Jules
If
I could have read this 50 years ago.....
S.
I agree
How can a person judge someone for doing what they feel is right? They can't! I believe that as long as they are not hurting themselves or others they have that right. I have two choices either I accept them for who they are, or let them lead thier life without me judging them. After all it is THIER life to live.
It Is The Damned Condescension
Of someone who claims to know how we feel but has no conception that what we are is not something we choose to be. We have no choice. We are what we are.
Thank you for putting it so eloquently, 'Drea,
Joanne