I have wanted to express myself for the longest,
I’m talking about the expectations you place on all of us as transgender people.
Your sense of entitlement to information regarding who we are without considering our level of comfort or privacy, continue to boil my blood
Your endless enquiries, posing as “Innocent Questions”, revolving around the nature of our bodies
As if we owe you our private intimate details, while you further sensationalize our existence
I’m talking about the expectations you place on all of us as transgender people.
Your sense of entitlement to information regarding who we are without considering our level of comfort or privacy, continue to boil my blood
Your endless enquiries, posing as “Innocent Questions”, revolving around the nature of our bodies
As if we owe you our private intimate details, while you further sensationalize our existence
I repeat -we are not your entertainment
Just because we are Trans does not mean that we owe you a blueprint of what our lives have been and are going to be.
I repeat- we are more than our bodies or our transitions
This makes me believe that you view us as nothing but objects
Forgetting that we too, are people with real issues that affect our everyday lives
Just because we are Trans does not mean that we owe you a blueprint of what our lives have been and are going to be.
I repeat- we are more than our bodies or our transitions
This makes me believe that you view us as nothing but objects
Forgetting that we too, are people with real issues that affect our everyday lives
Yet, the reality has become that Trans people are constantly blasted with “Innocent Questions” expected to educate by virtue of being Trans
But to be honest this, this becomes so draining to have to explain our lives repeatedly
Have you not heard of google? Trying to understand our existence before invading my privacy is far more rewarding to us all in the end
Why must we continue to feel like our identity is an inconvenience or burden?
Why must we constantly apologize for who we are or make excuses?
But to be honest this, this becomes so draining to have to explain our lives repeatedly
Have you not heard of google? Trying to understand our existence before invading my privacy is far more rewarding to us all in the end
Why must we continue to feel like our identity is an inconvenience or burden?
Why must we constantly apologize for who we are or make excuses?
We don’t have to apologize for being honest about our identity;
We don’t have to apologize because you find my identity difficult or unfamiliar.
We don’t have to say sorry for existing as being who we are is challenging enough. I owe nobody justification for the choices I have made when it comes to my body or my gender.
Truth of the matter remains that your entitlement erases OUR Humanity and continues to portray Trans people as objects or props before you can even view us as autonomous human beings.
We don’t have to apologize because you find my identity difficult or unfamiliar.
We don’t have to say sorry for existing as being who we are is challenging enough. I owe nobody justification for the choices I have made when it comes to my body or my gender.
Truth of the matter remains that your entitlement erases OUR Humanity and continues to portray Trans people as objects or props before you can even view us as autonomous human beings.
16 April 2018
20h22
Linda RM Baumann
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