An Open Letter To The Kentucky Legislature

Fat Old White Men Take Up Pitchforks To Hunt Queer Kids

Rebecca Simmers
3 min readMar 3

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For the majority of my life from age 7 on I have experienced verbal, physical, emotional, psychological, and financial abuse from society. This was in the form of classmates, classmates parents, teachers, adults at church, strangers and even cousins and neighbors. They took pleasure in publicly humiliating me, reminding me that I was "goofy looking", ugly, worthless, incapable, weak, not tough, a loser, too much like a girl (because girls were inherently worthless…

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Rebecca Simmers

Rebecca (She/Her) is a queer Poet and Writer, Women's Health Educator, Advocate and Caregiver currently based in Louisville.