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Waiting for My Transgender Head to Explode
Getting through today while also being transgender.
I remember in 1989 when I heard Billy Joel sing, We Didn’t Start the Fire, thinking what a lot of shit I have lived through…
…and then I lived another 36 years and the shit has gotten deeper and even more complicated. I tried to update the lyrics but I felt my head exploding.
The song’s refrain keeps echoing in my head:
“We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.”
How many fire hoses do we need now?
The far right dominates the US government, China and Russia are back to empire building, global politics is in total chaos, nations are rearming, maniacs are randomly shooting people, ice caps are melting, pandemics and epidemics are on the rise, oh, and transgender children are being denied medical care while books are…
