Journeys

Oy Oy Oy I would

Love to believe that

Some of these women are

Feminist, but truth is

They didn’t like me before I transitioned—

And now they really don’t.

Perhaps all this fuss about

Exclusionists is just their own

Inability to accept that

Not everyone wants to be

The way that they told us to be—

Not sure what their journey

Has to do with me…

Alas they are deeply concerned

With what I’m doing to my body

As if my womanhood

Or inherent lack-there-of

Is the only thing keeping them

Where they are