Over 30% of females in this group will attempt suicide before the age of 20

 

And almost 50% for the males.

 

8.6% of their teenagers have tried to end themselves in one year alone.

 

And 14.6% of them have a plan prepared for if they ever come to that point.

 

They only make up 0.6% percent of the population and yet many of them were killed in 2017 for just being who they are.

 

The women were the first ones to go.

 

Viccky Gutierrez

 

Celine Walker

 

Tonya Harvey

 

Zakaria Fry

 

Phylicia Mitchell

 

Sasha Wall

Nino Fortson

 

Gigi Pierce

 

Roxana Hernández

 

Cathalina James

 

Keisha Wells

 

Sasha Garden

 

Shantee Tucker

 

Londonn Moore

 

Regina Brown

 

Keanna Mattel

 

And Jessie Sumlar

 

These people fall into the cracks of history and they were killed for not fitting into society’s idea of ’normal’

 

I have been called enough slurs that if I wanted to ink them onto my skin I would not have enough room.

 

The word faggot used to mean cigarette

 

The term was applied to queers when people were rolled up in carpets and set on fire,

 

The people who stood there laughing thought that their victims looked like cigarettes and so the name stuck

 

Faggot, freak, pervert, mental,

 

Tranny.

 

If I asked what was in your pants I am labeled creepy but when you ask me you are just a concerned citizen.

 

If I stray too far from this box you have made for me I am a transtrender.

 

If I speak too loudly then I will end up dead

 

My corpse will be found in some dirty alleyway when the sun rises.

 

Well, I am done walking the path you laid out for me.

 

I am done speaking quietly.

 

I am done playing by your rules.

 

I am part of a club called binder boys

 

And maybe one-day society will just call me just boy.