Melissa Biersack Kirby‎ >> #INeedSafeSchools

#‎ineedsafeschools‬ because I’ve watch my friends be beaten up while I stood frozen scared of what could happen if I stepped in.

I need safe schools because I’ve been called some of the most horrendous things not only by my peers but a few of my teachers as well.

I need safe schools because my best friend has watched me cry into her shoulder for hours.

I need safe schools because I wasn’t given enough time to be completely comfortable with who I am before being forced to tell my parents.

I need safe schools because I ad so much self hate for myself that I wasn’t looking after myself.

I need safe schools because the only things around sexuality that is taught at my school is two pages in a text book that say GAY STRAIGHT AND TRANS.

I need safe schools because when I say that I am pansexual everyone has no idea what I’m talking about and guess that I’m in love with pots and pans

I need safe schools because I have a friend who was turned away from a school because of ‘special needs’. He’s trans.

I need safe schools because the two week long sex program in year nine has the assumption that everyone in the room is straight.

I need safe schools because for two whole years I felt broken.

I need safe schools because I’ve been trying to stay afloat while I have rocks tied to my ankles.

I need safe schools because my parents watch this happen and they feel helpless when nothing changes.

I need safe schools because I am not
Someone’s punching bag.
Something that can be tossed aside.
Someone’s pawn.
Something you can use like puppet.

I need safe schools because I am.

I am great.

And I am strong.

And my friends and family deserve that.

I deserve that.