Martlet.ca – Spencer Anderson
One UVic student’s journey to live life outside the box – even if it’s built by society
I didn’t want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please.
But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me.
That’s what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: “Is that a boy or a girl?”
* Leslie Feinberg in Stone Butch Blues