Trans People Aren't Your Experiment

Written in 2023

Most cisgender people know

Next to nothing

About transgender people

Just enough to be captivated

By our bodies

But not enough to take

Proper care of us

We have to educate doctors

And advocate for ourselves endlessly

They still treat me as “woman”

Won’t see me for me

With their tunnel vision

Fixated on how fascinating

Our bodies are

How unnatural and hideous

Call my body parts “female”

But I call them genderless

Trans people are held

Under a microscope

Specimens to dissect

Our bodies described in gory detail

To elicit shock and outrage

Shrink us down to bite size

Digestible as a fetish

An object of desire or disgust

Bigots get off to trans porn

Fuck a chick with a dick

Or a guy with a vag secretly

Then vote against our rights

I’m no freak of nature

I simply didn’t have a say in

My genetics or genitalia

I can’t change on my own

And my gender?

I’ve always been this way

If cis people insist on

Spreading me

Open on the operating table

The least they can do is

Perform surgery

Since they want me so badly to conform

But no, they’ll hold that

Out of reach too

Twist it from my grasp

Just poke and prod

Run their little experiments

Strip us all bare of rights

Then tell me to cover up

My body is no temple

I can call home

But I refuse to hide

My trans body in shame

Even if I get attacked

And robbed of my humanity

I refuse to live in fear

I won’t accept the majority’s

Opinion of me

I choose to live authentically

My trans body is stunning

Beautiful before transition

And even more beautiful now

So don’t come in my DMs

Calling me a twisted, ugly sinner

I earned these scars

Grew this thick hair

Prayed for these stretch marks

Let’s see how you like

The cold silver on your skin

And blinding light beating down

Let’s open you up

And see what went wrong

What a fine specimen you’ll make