An abandoned orphan
No one wants
Neither straights
Nor gays.
Left alone
To fend for themselves
Travelling a road
Most perilous.
Is
The trans child.
Therisa © 2016
Author's note: Most people don't realize, but the trans-community is, the only part of the LGBT community that doesn't deal, with sexuality. Rather, the expression of one's true gender. For this reason, I will never understand, why we're lumped into this gathering. True, a trans-person, fits across the sexual expression spectrum, unlike any other groups does.
In Toronto's downtown, where most of the teaching hospitals are local, there are no dedicate program that teaching interning doctors about transgender medical issues, unless, they have to treat a trans-patient, for the first. My doctor's office, is a satellite clinic, for one of the major Toronto teaching hospitals, and I have lost track, how many times, I had to educate the intern, about trans medicine, before they can treat my needs.
The title, for this poem, was inspired, by the Parachute Club's song, "Middle Child", which is found on their CD/Album release, At The Feet Of The Moon (1984). As they were politically active, in the Canadian fight for LGBT+ rights, during the early 1980s.
