A Quiet Genocide?

Sparked by, a segment, on the CBC Radio One show, "The Current", from January 9, 2015.

Genocide.

A word

Am finding myself

Struggling to accept

In the crimes

Against the transcommunity

Here.

 

In using

A definition

Almost 70 years old

That doesn't account

For the emergence

Of the LGBT community

From our closet

Of shame.

For I think

Of the ethnic massacres

From the last century

Against selected ethnicities

Like Jews, Hutus

And Armenians.

As a transsexual

I have experienced

Several situations

Which I felt

My life threaten

By the actions

Of others.

Forcing me

To flee

In the greater Toronto area

During the past 8 years.

Although

Elsewhere

This term gains

More traction.

When one looks

At the government organized

Level of violence and death

Happening

In Russia or Uganda.

Where

Being open

About your true self.

Is like signing

A death warrant.

For anyone

To attack

And kill you

Under these regimes.

Bringing back

Horrific images

Of Nazi Germany

And their brutal campaign

Against ethnic minorities.

Never mind

The LGBT+ community

Was one of their targets

As well.

Wish

I could provide

Hard data

To share.

But

No one keeps

Such information

Anywhere.

As more deaths

Are publically reported

Of transpeople dying

Through social

And traditional medias.

.

Whether

By their hands

Or murdered

By others.

Although

I do feel comfortable

In saying

Crimes against humanity

Is and has occurred

To my community.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russia-bans-transgenders-people-disorders-holding-drivers-licence-123859102.html

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2015/01/09/a-quiet-genocide-thats-what/

http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm

Author's Note

Given, the current definition, for genocide, I can't accept, the argument for a global genocide against the transcommunity, but in certain regions, I would use this label, without any hesitation, on my part. I have included, a link to the official definition of genocide, about. Along with The Current segment that spark this poem and Russia's latest attempt to isolate its transcommunity.

Reviews

[R Smith]

Thank you Therisa for an enlightening view of the transcommunity (interesting that my spell checker informs me that word does not exist) another form of restriction of information i guess, continue with your good work to make people understand and accept not reject :)

[therisa]

Your welcome, Richard. Am not surprised that your spell check doesn't include, transcommunity.