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Erased.
That’s what they say we do.
We render women ex,
by disrespecting sex
We gender them.
As though so few could ever oust a body thousandfold our number.
We add, do not subtract;
Replace, in any way.
Remember that, as they dismember womanhood
Reduce each she to no more than the sum of parts.
* * *
Erase
Is what they do to us.
Unsexing.
Disgendering
Dead-naming in life and death alike.
For let it never be that we, dysphoric we
Trans women, men, non-binary
Should grow to celebrate,
Reconsecrate our bodies.
* * *
Erased.
You lonely sad translating souls,
Who could no longer daily face disdain, disgust
