Men would not date women thirty years
younger than them and young women
would have the confidence to say
to these men when the men propositioned them
'Go and find woman your own age
with equal experience and greater maturity.'.
In a more gender balanced society we would not
have to know who was transgender among us,
and who was in the midst of changing their gender,
and where we knew we would care rather than
use the knowledge to excuse outrage and anger
to flood the social media with, to trigger point.
In a more gender balanced society fewer companies
would demand to know the contents of an applicants
birth certificate before deciding how to view them.
In a more gender balanced society the fact of 'being gay',
'being lesbian' or being any particular identity
other than pair-bonded heterosexual whom the law
was designed to approve of-one of each gender-
would not be an issue and a same sex bond
can be as much for life as any other kind of attachment.
Such a society seems a long way off,
but where you see glimpses of it
add them to all the other signs
you share of hope for a better future.
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