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date: 2015-10-14
type: post
title: Being Transgender
categories:
- Poem
tags:
- Gender
- Transition
---
<pre class="verse">
You get to explain gender to all of your friends &mdash;
And all of your family &mdash;
And maybe once more to be sure &mdash;
And random strangers &mdash;
And maybe, like, doctors and nurses who should probably know better;
You get to explain to your partner that nothing has changed &mdash;
And that you were always this way &mdash;
And that really, honestly, nothing has changed &mdash;
And that this has no effect on your love for them &mdash;
And I promise;
You will get to come out again &mdash;
And explain that it wasn't that being gay wasn't enough &mdash;
And explain that it has nothing to do with who you like &mdash;
And explain that that shouldn't matter &mdash;
And &mdash; oh right, this means you might be straight after all;
You get to go through that awkward period of growing your hair out &mdash;
And learning how to ask for a more feminine haircut &mdash;
And trying a curling iron for the first time &mdash;
And figuring out how to eat noodles without also eating your hair &mdash;
And the worries that you're just trying to be rebellious;
You get to worry whether you're maybe just trying to be rebellious &mdash;
And whether or not you might just be faking it &mdash;
And whether you're really Trans Enough or not &mdash;
And whether you're maybe just appropriating femininity &mdash;
And whether or not passing really matters to you anyway;
You get to dress up in your best clothes &mdash;
And your best makeup &mdash;
And worry that your shoes are too masculine &mdash;
And have your hair game on point &mdash;
And convince the doc that you deserve those patches and pills;
You get to go through puberty again &mdash;
And it will be weirder this time around &mdash;
And your skin will grow soft &mdash;
And you'll get more sensitive to temperature changes &mdash;
And &mdash; YEOWCH! That's a new sensation;
You will cry a lot &mdash;
And bite your tongue often &mdash;
And lower your gaze &mdash;
And learn to take up less space &mdash;
And talk softer;
And your dogs will still love you.
</pre>