She’d rather be a “Boy Dontcha Know” by Joan Osborne is a song about a trans person’s need to transition. It’s the only one that comes to my mind offhand. Osborne’s use of the wrong pronoun for a trans man is cringe, but at least the message is supportive. It’s a start.
This thread is intended to keep the thread about bisexual and pansexual songs from being hijacked by a different topic. Just so we’re all on the same page of music, be aware that gender identity and sexual orientation vary independently of each other. Anyone of any gender can have any sexual orientation at all and vice versa.
By the title of this thread, I meant to be clear that it’s about songs for trans people and not against them.
My father is called Miranda these days She’s a proud transgender woman And my resentment has started to fade Because it was never about who she was Just the way that he behaved And now my father is Miranda and we’re ok
This says songs “for” trans people, not specifically “about” trans people. And I know I’m giving the song a different meaning than it’s intended. But, I have related to this song since the 1980s. (and I’m not trans),
A Man I’ll Never Be by Boston.
Some lyrics. (Is this too much lyrics?)
If I said what’s on my mind
You’d turn and walk away…
You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind, you see
A man I’ll never be…
I can’t get any stronger
And I can’t climb any higher
You’ll never know just how hard I’ve tried
Cry a little longer
And hold a little tighter
Emotions can’t be satisfied…
It’s a little hard to know how to judge this as Will Wood’s whole deal seems to change depending on his current state of mind and bipolar disorder (AFAIK he says he’s cis het these days), but nonetheless, here’s *I/Me/Myself:
For some reason I find myself Lost in what you think of me And too confused to choose who I should be And now you’ve got me thinking I wish I could be a girl, and that way You’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Am I pretty enough to lie to I wish I could be a girl, and that way You’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend Just little old me in a big, big world Little old me in a big world I wish I were a girl
Does it have to have lyrics? A Mother of a Revolution sparked some controversy last year when a high school orchestra was scheduled to play it, but the school board overruled them.
I worded the OP extra carefully because in the other thread somebody tried to idiosyncratically claim that transgender and pansexual are synonyms, while posting transphobic songs.
