This Land is Your Land
This land is your land, this land is your land
You’ve made it clear now, it sure ain’t my land
My transness and I sure aren’t accepted here
This land wasn’t made for me.
As i’m trespassing in your religion,
I see you calling that i’ll go to hell
I see your yelling, so I keep my head
Down
Low.
Maybe hell is the land for me.
I’d love to have pride all over the place
But there’s a new bill and i’m so afraid
I go through tiktoks, gay jokes for hours
If pride is hell, hell is the land for me.
Genital exams on Florida girls
To check if they’re trans,
Sounds like harassment,
Trans girls did nothing
So why are they attacked?
This land doesn’t feel free for me.
Cis-apparent queers
Aren’t really getting
As many attacks
But i’m still afraid.
Another day ends,
Even more trans blood spilled,
This isn’t truly the “land of the free”.
We try to walk up 5 steps of justice,
But you’re haunting us,
You shove us back 10.
I feel ridiculed for my fear and sorrow.
This land isn’t the land for me.
You come back stronger
And in my driveway
You blame this on God,
Who I thought taught kindness.
While you yell at me,
I just want to be left alone
This land isn’t the land for me.
This land is your land,
This land is your land,
You’ve made it clear now,
It sure ain’t my land,
My transness and I sure aren’t accepted here
This land sure wasn’t made for me.
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Heartbreaking and powerful. I have a trans child. We must unite and persist…. and keep using our voices! Thank you for sharing.
<3 Yes, powerful and poignant!
love how you work in the Woody Guthrie song lyrics