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The Bitch in Black post by Deesha Philyaw, April 17, 2009 - 4:54am; tagged African-American, bullying, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, gender conformity, GLSEN, LGBT, PFLAG.

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Imagine being teased and harassed by your peers--“You’re gay!” “You’re girlie!” “You’re a fag!”—because you don’t conform to their expectations of you based on your gender.

Imagine that this happens every day at school.

Imagine that you are 11 years old.

What if every week your mother pleaded with the officials at your school to do something to put an end to the taunting--to no avail?

And what if one day you just couldn’t take it anymore?

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