My Intersex Story, Poems, Prejudice

Poem: This is not my world!

This is not my world.

How could it be?

You abort us, sterilize us, and destroy our genital integrity.

You raise us the wrong gender with your “expertise” and “science.”

All without our consent as children.

This is not my world.

How could it be?

You erased us from information technology, forms, and pretty much everything.

This is not my world.

How could it be?

Even dating apps make it impossible to exist or to find someone to love.
And when they do love us, you brand them a pervert, freak, or a Faggot!

This is not my world.

How could it be?

Systemic oppression and people in power and control

has destroyed our chance to exist in your world!

We have been erased by this world called Earth.

Shamed into silenced.

Crammed into the shadows.

Forced onto surgery tables with the latest and greatest surgical technique!

Even your endosexist, cissexist, and heteronormative psychiatrist says there are only two.

They convinced you I have a personal problem.

        …. and into the closet we go without a choice!

Even your museum attempts to call me a myth!

This is not my world!

I refuse to abide by your false dichotomy and binary rules!

Guess what it is your problem now.

         …..and don’t tell me I can’t be angry.

I am in a rage!

By Anunnaki Ray Marquez

January 30th, 2024

~.V.~

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