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What Does It Take?

March 26, 2012
By Jaxen82 BRONZE, Green Bay, Wisconsin
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What does it take
To be called it?
Does it take
A boy in pink?
Or does it take
Something as small as
Being born wrong?
Does it take
A girl with a flat chest?
Does it take
A boy whose chest is bumpy?
What does it take
To be called it?

© Andrew F., Lake In The Hills, IL

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I wrote this off the top of my head about my experiences being trans.
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