Cross your arms
Hold your breath
After a while,
All will be right.
Close your eyes
Then open again-
Time is renewed.
You'll make it though the night.

Deep inhale,
Sharp exhale.
Keep the rhythm.
They won't know.
Just say hi, and move on past.
This is the day.
Keep carrying though.
You'll keep living because
Today is not your last.

You pass as cis.
You've made it, dear.
You're important.
You matter to me.
I need you here.
You can do this.
Don't bother what they say.
Just let it be.

no more.

America needs a domestic violence specialist as president.

domestic violence is the interaction of separate people having gender crisis individually. How one deals with their own gender politics and/or crisis is how they relate to another human and their gender identity. Same with race and class too. Even within oneself it is violent to uphold the status quo of male whiteness.

most often couples diagnose the vulnerabilities of gender identity in each other and either reinforce the insecurities or try and help compensate to build up confidence. But the struggle of the individual may feel alienated because it is not something that may ever be settled or finished any time in the near future. If there is one. Nor does is need to be finished. So this demand of cisgendered relationships is a lot of pressure that causes unnecessary friction. It helps to know one is constructing this rather than desperately functioning in a construction of gender that is preconceived and punishable if one fails.