Reproduced with kind permission of @howdoesatoastermaketoast
For Amy
“I stand with Amy Hamm” is trending, p'raps at last the lie is ending.
She's the nurse they think so horrid, (though far from clear on what she did).
They say she must be ruled unfit, cannot her job perform if it
Is not the case that she agrees, a man can change sex if he please.
There are two points of view it seems, the world's dividing into teams.
Both sides are sure, it’s fair to say. T’the others true outright dismay.
Amy they say must be unfit, cannot her job perform if it
Is not the case that she agrees, a man can change sex if he please.
It’s difficult to understand why p’ple would insist she’s banned
And cannot practise her career, but ‘tis the case they make it clear.
Amy they say must be unfit, cannot her job perform if it
Is not the case that she'll agree, people are what they wish to be.
They do not ask if up is down , they do not ask if red is brown,
they do not ask if water’s wet , but no less crazy does it get.
Amy is asked in many ways, same question in a diff’rent phrase.
It is the case do you agree, people are what they wish to be?
Under oath she's kindly stated, firmly, gently, but clearly said;
a male person, a good nurse knows, stays male. That's just how it goes.
Amy is asked in many ways, same question in a diff’rent phrase.
Just which men will you agree become women and to what degree?
So under oath she plainly swears, women exist and people care.
There are two types of human being, no matter what a man finds freeing.
They say a nurse cannot perform, unless agreeing sex is worn.
Just which men will you agree become women and to what degree?
It may still be that sex is real, doesn't matter it's how you feel.
Identity is all there is, so you adjust whatever his.
They say a nurse cannot perform, unless agreeing sex is worn.
Would she perhaps kindly agree, a woman's not anatomy.
Women's a word we've redefined and Amy gets it wrong you’ll find.
She keeps keeping on quite rudely, speaking facts so very crudely.
They say she's too unkind, a stress, cannot her job perform unless...
would she perhaps kindly agree, a woman's not anatomy.
It's a sense anyone can claim, accessories and acts and fame.
Procedures that're undertaken, unwanted sex can be shaken.
They say she's too unkind, a stress, cannot her job perform unless...
she will declare it true indeed, that woman's not a word we need.
To mean anything specific, meaningless words are terrific.
It seems they have not realised, bodies are not homogenised.
So sure and certain they are right, they fight a nurse with all their might
so she'll declare it true indeed, that woman's not a word we need.
Amy's through and cannot bear it, had enough and dares to share it.
Thinks for herself and refuses, to lie, deny and so chooses
to risk it all defending truth, to risk it all defending youth.
It is the case she will not lie, maintains that women signify.
Woman is a word we still need, to understand the girls who bleed.
Not all bodies are just the same, it doesn't matter what you claim.
A nurse must know her patients sex, reality is not pretext.
A nurse cannot her job perform, if we all forget this norm.
howdoesatoastermaketoast (Nov. 2023)