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I'm Sorry

Genderqueer Poem

By Skylar RellaPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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I’m sorry,

Does it bother you that I’m constantly correcting you in your speech,

Telling you to stop excluding non-binary people,

Trans people,

To stop acting like the gender binary,

Cisgender people,

Are the only people on the planet?

I’m sorry,

Are you bothered by the fact that I’m not afraid to be loud about who I am,

Refusing to let you act like my identity isn’t valid?

Are you inconvenienced by the fact that I push you to use different language,

Using more words in your sentence as to not exclude my existence,

And the existence of others like me?

I’m sorry,

Does it make you uncomfortable that I exist?

That I want you to know that I exist?

That I want you to respect that I exist?

I’m sorry,

Do I bother you

As a trans person?

Do I inconvenience you

As a non-binary person?

Do I make you uncomfortable

For being comfortable about who I am?

I’m sorry,

But I’d love if you’d stop living in the lie of your

Cisnormative, cis-centered, cis-exclusive world,

And start facing the truth of your internalized cissexism and transmisogyny.

I’m sorry,

But I’m going to have to ask you to either respect me and my community,

Or shut your cis little mouth and keep your cis lips sealed,

Because we trans people,

We non-binary people

Are tired of hearing all of the unnecessary cis bullshit that gushes out of

Those cis mouths,

Those cis lips.

I’m sorry,

But I am not the one who really should be.

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About the Creator

Skylar Rella

visual & performing artist.

original art attached to written pieces.

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