Lifestyle
noun
1. the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
adjective
2. pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle:
unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel.
3. (of a drug) used to treat a medical condition that is not life-threatening or painful:
lifestyle drugs for baldness.
Source: www.dictionary.com
Dear Whomever;
Please help me
To understand
How being trans
And gay or lesbian
Is a lifestyle choice?
When children
As young as
Four years old
Are identifying
Themselves
As the opposite gender.
Who have
Never known
Anything
Beyond
Their heterosexual
Cis-parents.
Whereas
Religion is
Whether or not
You like it
Is a lifestyle choice.
Dictating
The food eaten
Clothes worn
And manner of worship.
While
Being gay or lesbian
The decision
To be flamboyant
Or not
Is a lifestyle choice.
And not
The collection
Of DNA markers.
Or
The accident hormonal
Backwash
During pregnancy
Make a lifestyle choice.
Therisa © 2016
Author's note: Cis is a shorthand, used by the transcommunity, to stand for "Comfortable in skin" gender.
Author's note: Cis is a shorthand, used by the transcommunity, to stand for "Comfortable in skin" gender.