LGBTQ+
By: Sheerin Bakhtiyar
Tags: LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Toxicity

I’m a female myself , the last human just above animals while drawing a line for basic human rights in this core rotten society. But what fears me more is the dreaded condition of people who got recognition in my era or 20th century. The community that was suppressed by both the society and respective homes. There weren’t many households that gave recognition to the existence of the LGBTQ+ community and the entire civilization still lacks the sensitivity to actually accept them for its not the acceptance that they care for , but its the fact of being ranked as the outer family when the entire civilization enjoys the rights of inner family. There have been many incidents when the community has paid the price of shallow thoughts tracing this community to barely a glitch in the brain rather it being a physical and mental difference, the existence being natural just like any other human. What depresses me is the social stigma that these people have been slapped with. Comparing homosexuality to an illness and thinking it as way of punishing the members of the esteemed rather than celebrating the existence of each human life. If there was a parameter to check how low can humanity stoop it must be way near negated infinity. I have often seen people traumatizing such gems for the sheer fact of there sexuality. I faced this firsthand discrimination when I was rumored to be from this community for having grown facial hair. I obviously didn’t feel marginalized back then but later I realized that having facial hair didn’t mean that you are not a female and neither being from this community should be looked down upon. We are all fingers in a hand, none matching the other . Just because a finger looks different doesn’t mean that they should be outcast , maybe your mentality should be cast out that categorized them as different. World has evolved daily and is still evolving but what we actually required was the evolvement of human brain that alone could have brought every section unlike getting recognition in the 20th century. With dealing homelessness and social perceptions , this community has shined and fought off each battle solely. People with their identities challenged , existence questioned and emotions rejected , showed the world the power in believing in themselves.

There have been certain laws in north african countries where people from this society are imprisoned. In Russia there are restrictions of expression .

Though many countries have greeted them with open arms yet there are still countries counting it as sin and not as a way of living . To choose a same sex partner is still not permitted in certain lands governed by sick minds.

When it comes to human rights it is the most abominable fact that human themselves put other humans beyond margins. While we are just different colors in a flag . With no more to say about the pain that these human beings face , I’d like to add a poem I composed showing the toxicity surrounding them.

“It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, I was passed from lap to lap, To assess the reality that I had stabbed, But even my parents’ arms couldn’t protect me from ‘their’ stares, “It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, I grew up befriending every soft heart, But one question always got me cold, Whether I was a boy with a car or a girl with a doll, “It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, This question made me question my own existence, And many more questions about genitalia popped, Was I supposed to be a part of non human race, “It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, Every paper questioned what I was, My “make up” would affect so much; this thought never occurred, Now I realize that they never took me for a human being, “It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, Was I made for “ signals”, to be the one with an unnatural presence, But why should I be judged by the organs I had or not, Wasn’t I normal with a soul and skin, “It’s a…… “, the nurse stopped, I think how heartlessly they stole my life, A bright future is all I had always hoped, I wish tomorrow when a child is born, “ It’s a baby”, is what a nurse calls….

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