Trans comedian and actor Bethany Black complained to her school when she was bullied and was told: "Maybe if you conformed a little bit you would not make yourself such a target".
"We should be delighted to have any sort of music after lunch, but meanwhile we should be obliged if you would conform with us". "Never mind, never mind," cried one of the elegant ones in bowler hats.
Even if the bank you are with does not charge you for using the overdraft, they will charge you if you even conform over it.
Slap a label on you and, if you don't conform, they say you've contradicted yourself.
"If you don't conform then you don't count as diverse, no matter what your personal background".
In other words, if you do not conform to the norm, people will stop listening to you not because of what you are saying, but because of how you are saying it.
"If you don't conform, you go online and there are just so many spaces to speak to other people there, and for a lot of trans people, it's actually the only safe place they have.
It is easier if you would just conform to their healing timeline, which is the timeline they are using to dictate to you.
It is easier for them if you would just conform to their healing timeline, which by the way, is the timeline that they are using to dictate to you.
