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Olias Fall, "Gender Rebel"
(2006)

When Billy was a young boy
He got made fun of at school
'Cause he liked to wear pink dresses
And use the girls' bathroom
When he started wearing makeup
His parents didn't know what to do
All the other boys called him a faggot
And beat him up in the locker room

Because
He was a gender rebel
And he had the boy-girl blues

And then there was Susie
She tried to change her name to Bob
Her parents thought she was a lesbian
But all the others just thought her quite odd
She cut all of her hair off
Dressed herself in boys' clothes
Why, when she took her shirt off to go swimming
Nobody would even notice

Because
She was a gender rebel
And she had the boy-girl blues

And then there was Sebastian
The strangest case of all
But no one knew quite what he was
As she walked down the hall
Got kicked out of all the restrooms
And the doctors couldn't believe their eyes
To see this body naked
'Cause he/she was a hermaphrodite

They were a gender rebel
Oh yeah
They were a gender rebel
Uh huh, baby
They were a gender rebel
And they had the boy-girl blues

Franny looked so androgynous
They all of them called him a she
They thought he was from another planet
In some distant galaxy
Finally, one day a teacher asked
"Franny, do you go by he or she?"
Franny replied, "Neither, thank you
I prefer to go by ze"

Ze was a gender rebel
Oh yeah
Ze was a gender rebel
Uh huh, baby
Ze was a gender rebel
And ze had the boy-girl blues

And then Billy met Susie
It was love at first sight
They started the restroom revolution
And they prepared themselves to fight
They painted over the labels
On all the bathroom doors
They replaced "ladies" with "multisex pedestrians"
And "men" with "blood and gore"

Because
They were the gender rebels
Oh yeah
They were the gender rebels
Uh huh, baby
They were the gender rebels
And they had the boy-girl blues

But the police and the preachers
They didn't like it one bit
They called these rebels sinners
Crazed, and anarchist lunatics

But they were just the gender rebels
Oh yeah
They were the gender rebels
You know what I'm singing
They were the gender rebels
One more time, baby
They were the gender rebels
And they had the boy-girl blues