Hm, I like this. The rhyme and meter are both very clean, and the way the subsequent stanzas borrow consecutive lines from the first is a nice effect. Kind of like a pantoum, in a way, for how they change their meaning by being used in a new context. Most of it seems to talk to tolerance of gender identity, but the last one feels more like being kind in general. I could still buy it being a consequence of that, though, in that the former is an element of the latter. Nicely done.

>>Pascoite

Thanks, Pasco:

And thanks, everyone who voted. The form's called a rondeau redouble', and it's become one of my favorites the past couple years. The prompt got me thinking about the expansion of the universe and from there to Dr. Martin Luther King's line about how “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” There are some things we maybe don't want to go back to, and with the universe expanding, here's hoping we can all keep expanding as well. :)

Mike