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This song is about my experience doing childcare for a "radical" tenants rights group that ended up having some deeply rooted and unchecked transphobic beliefs. Being probably the only openly trans person most of these young kids (ages 3-15) had encountered, I happily fielded all of their gender related questions and answered honestly, and jokingly talked back to them (and hopefully taught them something, who knows?) when they said rude things to me. This got me accused of flirtatiousness, deception, and "inappropriate conduct" by parents and staff members, simply for telling kids who asked that I didn't always feel entirely like a woman or a man, but between the two state-recognized genders. All of the tropes came out and were used against me in a humiliating and infuriating "meeting" that Jake and I walked out on. It was made very clear to me that lying to children was what was expected of me. There were kids in that childcare group who were clearly struggling with both gender and sexuality and didn't yet know how to put words to what they were going through. This song is for them and for our relationships that were severed by ignorance. The system that hurt us will be burned to the fucking ground!

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Dezlan never said much he just smiled at my pleasantries, like any kid his age there were things he couldn't name about a fucked up family, the spectre of his womanhood, impending adolescent trauma and a femininity I tried to save. There was a flicker in his eye, a recognition hurt and hidden at the sight of his own kind. Fear of the unknown inside, and reoccuring visions of a different life. Mecca asked are you a boy or are you a girl, I said "girl, I'm a little bit of both". We went right back to playing tag or whatever game it was. Her love was unconditional but her mother didn't trust transexuals. There was a flicker in her eye, a recognition of complications in the ideas memorized. The gender prisons we all live in...that kid was gonna burn em to the ground. We're gonna burn 'em to the ground.

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from Peeple Watchin'​/​+​HIRS+ split 7", released March 6, 2014

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