To you my identity is [dangerous], [disastrous], and [harmful]. But to me I simply just don't want to be a she or a he, and now you've taken away the ability for me to be. 

You dictate our bodies and choices because it doesn't matter where we are you'll always be there muting our voices

You spend hours a day falsely preaching, meanwhile people are fired for being themselves while teaching 

You rewrite and overwrite grammar and language to eradicate us and keep us locked up in cages.

You get away with anything illegal but, somehow when I breathe it's lethal 

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but to me these false words couldn't mean any less 

They say this country is free but here I am being forced to pay the price as you take my rights to live a happy life, to grow old with my future wife 

In your eyes we're conniving 

But in ours 

we're no longer living we're surviving 

We look at ourselves and stand with pride cause we can't afford to stand off to the side 

While you spend all day tweeting

 I'm getting a verbal beating 

Getting punished for being myself

But goddammit … how can I be anyone else