For part one, click here. These two sentences don’t count toward the 124-word total.–DVM
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I didn’t really care about transgenderism until four years ago. That’s when my brother Caleb sent everyone, including me, a text announcing, first, that he had started “transitioning” so his outside could match what he felt like inside. And second, that we should start referring to him by a female name he’d given.
If “OK groomer” had been a thing back then, I would have texted that to him, I was so angry. Instead, I didn’t text him anything. Though I did wonder if, during his childhood, the family should have encouraged him to embrace his masculine side more? Like, watch the Steelers with us? Or watch superhero movies? Watching the right stuff can prevent you from ruining your life. And everyone else’s life.
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I don’t share the narrator’s bigoted beliefs. These two sentences don’t count toward the 124-word total, either.–DVM
Copyright © 2023 by David V. Matthews
March 26, 2023
DAVID V. MATTHEWS 