Paris Is Burning

🏳️‍⚧️I REFUSE TO HIDE ANYMORE🏳️‍⚧️ Or at least that’s how I thought I was going to start this review. About 20 minutes in, my mum comes in doing new year’s dusting. She asks what I’m watching, so I say. She asks what’s it about so I say fashion. I leave out the queer part. Don’t get me wrong, my mum is extremely accepting. Most likely more accepting than me. When my dad asked what I was watching, I said the same. He is a different story. It’s hard to tell. Representation is so so so important to me and I’m sure many other queer people. I look at the people in this documentary and I see myself! I see trans women like myself and I feel less alone with my problems. I feel like I'm not going through it alone. It is nice to have people accept me, it makes me feel better. But seeing people go through what I’m going through makes me feel not alone anymore. I see these women talk about their sex change operations and it makes it seem like it’s possible for me.  This year was meant to be my year. I had so many plans: shop like a woman, dress like a woman and start some kind of HRT. Puberty blockers was where I was going to start. Prevent everything this body is trying to do to me. But they’ve been banned for under 18s where I live. Banned. Puberty blockers save lives!!! And not just trans lives, they can be used with treatment for leukaemia. This government is denying under 18s life saving treatment. Fuck the world. Until you accept us for who we are, fuck you. I will not hide. I will not change. I will not be silenced. I am transgender and for the first time in my life i am proud to say that. I am going to do everything in my power to be seen as a woman this year. To look like a woman, to dress like a woman, to feel like a woman.  My name is Robyn and I am a proud transgender woman 🏳️‍⚧️