Barnum and Bailey.
Blows my mind how
On the internet
There are soooo many
Perfectly gorgeous trans people
And in real life
There are lots of
Angry, sad, fat, sick
Happy, glad, mad, queer
Pregnant, barren, botched
Beautiful people who’ve all had
A diversity of experiences on
Different prescriptions of hormones and
A wide variety of medical services
And yet
Overwhelmingly, what we see
Is a curated group
That the “higher ups” (cis folk?) decided
Were “positive trans representation”
Because, I guess, you know–
Nobody wants to see the
Half-and-half freaks
That aren’t instagrammable.
That shit died with
Barnum and Bailey.