A boy

A boy wearing a dress

A transgender boy wearing a dress

Not a girl

Comfortable in his masculinity

Why are you not comfortable in my masculinity?

How does me wearing a dress hurt you?

How does it hurt you more than you telling your child you will never respect them?

What will it take to prove it to you i am not a girl?

Watching sports and yelling?

Getting louder and angrier when I don’t get my way?

Telling my kids I will never support who they are?

Telling my kids I will never support who they are because they don’t fit my cookie cutter mold?

telling my kids i will never support who they are because they aren’t me.

I didn’t grow up when you did.

You are a forty year old man deadnaming a kid.

You are a grown man telling a child they aren’t enough.

You are a grown man.

I am a boy wearing a dress.

Ozzy Faas

Age 15, Grade 10

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School For the Arts

Easton Area School District