Public Restroom
The usual panic
experienced by all non
binary people.
Will I be ejected
because I don't look right?
Because my voice is
deep
or my biceps, strong
enough to lift a car
are too masculine?
Do I threaten people
with my queer politics,
my outspoken viewpoint,
my advocacy for gay,
queers, blacks, muslims
(and, perversely, for
christians
and pin-suited white
men.)
This is the fear that
transwomen feel,
and transmen,
and masculine-of-centre
women
and feminine-of-centre
men.
This is the fear felt
by gay men
faced with homophobic
staight folk,
by muslim women in
white cities
by black men in white
pubs.
“They prey on our
children”
scream the daily rants
but the paedophiles and
rapists;
the pushers of drugs
and hate,
the agents of violence
against strangers
are almost always
straight white Christians
preaching hate in the
name of their straight white god.
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