Born in every way

I am hated by your world

May I wake you up

Haiku By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

November 22, 2018,

Thanksgiving Day in the United States

Yes, I know the many shades of prejudice.

Here is my intersectionality:

• I feel like an alien to this world.
• I have a Marquez Castilian Spanish Father
• My mother grew up in poverty in the United States as German and Pennsylvania Dutch.
• My Ashkenazi Jewish Genes makes me and my cousin intersex.
• Born a 46XX an Intersex boy, but assigned female at birth in error.
• My form of intersex is one of the most commonly aborted!
• Labeled a Disorder of Sex Development and a medical condition.
• Later labeled a Transgender Man.
• My husband and I now look like two Gay Men.
• I am very Queer.
• Born a Zebra among Horses: Mitochondrial dysfunction & Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
• I have a Learning Difference, Memory issues, and Autism Spectrum Traits.
• I was misdiagnosed mentally ill but cleared by different psychiatrists as not having such a diagnosis.
• I am a recovered alcoholic and addict: My fired psychiatrist was my drug dealer.  A new psychiatrist cleared my name of all the misdiagnosis.
• I can’t eat gluten and am truly carbohydrate intolerant.
• A parent to marginalized three children, since they have two fathers now and my husband is African American, Spanish, Pawnee, Irish, French, and German.
• I’m a Gestational Father too.  I had six pregnancies and two live births.
• Adoptive same-gender parents.
• My kids know they are okay if they are LGBTQ+ in some way, and they also know that they are welcome to date, love, or marry anyone.
• Received the first intersex birth certificate in Colorado proving my biological sex is intersex and not a disorder of sex development.

~.V.~