The Party's Started

yuyuko saigyouji plush doll

This meetup is majority transmasc with a handful of cis queers. I've been several times in the past and never seen another transfem there, but I thought I'd give it another go just in case. And I've written several poems since I last went too.

The way it normally works is that you go round the circle a few times reading poems you've written or brought with you. This time the organiser (she/they) mysteriously skipped over me twice, but never skipped anyone else. Sometimes I was on the verge of reading my poem when they gestured to the person who should've come after me to speak.

She wants to organise a letter-writing campaign to our local political representative about transphobia. The only problem: they got our representative mixed up with the neighbouring district's, and when I corrected her about that she became really sulky. (Side note, but the way the transfem/non-transfem dynamic easily maps onto the woman/man dynamic is so striking at times lol.)

At the end they told a joke about how Caitlyn Jenner can't be buried at sea because she has too much plastic in her face so she'll float. Haha, isn't it funny that a trans woman has cosmetic surgery... No no, you don't understand, it's funny because she's a bad person, if you got cosmetic surgery it wouldn't be funny...

your natural features are NOT "manly" or "masculine" or "ugly" or whatever the hell else society says!!!!

this goes double for Black, Indigenous, Arab, and South Asian trans women and other trans women of color btw <3