I don’t care about before-and-after photos
Posted: January 11, 2013 Filed under: trans | Tags: bigotry, childhood, children, cissexism, ftm, media, mtf, poems, poetry, queer, stereotypes, trans, transgender, transition, transphobia, youth 2 Comments »They throw them in your face to shock you
As if you didn’t already know that infants grow to tower above you
Smooth skin becomes wrinkled and grey
And a child’s open, honest love is made into newspaper headlines
For the wrong reason
With the wrong name
To shock you
