Fat Is A Queer Issue
Fat is a queer issue
Queer behavior by definition
Is nonconformist
Fat bodies
Do not conform—
Therefore
Fat is a queer issue.
My whole life, as a lesbian
As a non-binary person
As a transsexual man
As a transgender individual—
I have been tiptoed around
Because my fat—
Has always been seen as
A disqualifying component
Of my queerness.
🤣🤣🤣
Imagine
Right?!? People insisting
That a body that doesn’t conform to society’s expectations
Isn’t queer—
I can’t even.
When I was a lesbian—
My fatness was always proof
Of “why I was a lesbian”—
“You’re only a lesbian
Because no man would ever fuck you”
LMFAO
My favorite part of my
Journey through the queer community’s bigotry
Was my gender therapist
Saying “I don’t think you can trust
That you’re trans until we’ve solved
Your body image issues. Your weight
Will prevent you from passing anyway.
You need to lose weight
Before you transition, that way
We know this is about your gender—
Not your weight problem”
Or even better when
I came out to my mom
She asked—
“Now— you’re sure you aren’t doing this
Just to lose weight…?”
I think it’s important to mention
That I was never the one to bring up my weight
In this way
First. I would bring up my weight
As something I work on daily—
Something I have been trained to manage
Since I was a very small kid.
The only people
Wondering if my transgender identity
Was a weight-loss plan
Were the people who were
Unable to see me
As anything other than
A bag of weepy adipose shit.
Tell me again
How fat
Isn’t a queer issue—