I am the 1% | Joe Raymond

Joe Raymond I Am the 1%

I am not binary, nor gay, not gender fluid I am violet not purple

Almost imperceptibly so, different looks back from my mirror

I am neither He, nor She yet I am both―Me I am not blue because bad boys took mine from me when I was young nor am I purple after being unacceptably untraditional finding love I have always been a violet They, or Them I just didn’t understand that They could be Me for so long it was a crazy, confusing way to be

If you see He, that’s perfectly okay with me but I see more She than He looking back at me and I’m finally okay with all that is Me I am not drawn to your slot A or tab B, that’s not where it starts for me I fall in love with your heart, your character, your aspirations and I worry...will you hurt me?

My sisters have always been my brothers, they are the most like me.

and I am the 1%

Mine is more of a coming clear than a coming out. Nothing has really changed except that I have become more comfortable in my identity. There are six major alleles in the human DNA, not two; we are not simple binary beings. Therefore, I choose to be who I was meant to be, that 1% in the middle.