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Please
Someone pinch me
To wake me up
Telling me
It isn't a dream
I am having.
Too many times
In the past
(Six previous denials)
We have reached
This point.
Only
To have
The rug pulled out
From us.
As if
Transgender rights
Doesn't matter
In a societal
And legal sense
In Canada.
Pardon me
As I wipe away
Tears of joy
And hope
For Bill C-16.
Knowing
What's written
On paper
Won't change
Attitudes.
But
One needs
A starting point
For real change
To occur.
Maybe
Bill C-16
Is it.
Therisa © 2016
Author's note: Today (May 17, 2016), Canada's federal government has proposed constitutional change that would protect a transperson, under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Choosing today, as it's International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, for the announcement. The following link, is the announcement, of this proposed federal legislation:
My biggest fear is, these changes are cosmetic, only, and don't have any real bite, to them, in protecting people, like myself. Much, like the old Soviet Union's constitution, great on ideals, but pitiful, on implementation.
