67%

67%

The number of trans teenagers that are sexually harassed at school

But that's ok, right?

They're not people

They're just a statistic

97% are discriminated against at work

A lifetime of fighting to learn themselves

Only for others not to

They are not a statistic

40% have attempted

15% have succeeded

...

No

Jenny attempted

George attempted

Jace succeeded

Jack attempted

Ginny attempted

Jasmine succeeded

Joseph attempted

But who cares about their names

After all

They aren't people

They are just numbers barely surviving in bodies built from the labels others stuck on them

Labels that cut their paper skin like glass and bleed out their hearts until all that's left is unused ink and unshed tears.

1% of people are trans

That may not seem like a lot

But it's 1% of 7, 461, 561, 484

74, 615, 617 people

There's greater chance of being trans than being struck by lightning

Being attacked by a shark

Over and over

I have to explain that they are people

Not a statistic

Not monsters

Just people

Cast out of their homes

Bullied at school

Mocked in the streets

Just for accepting who they are

And I have to wonder

How did we quietly let ourselves turn into monsters?