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I'm about to tell you a secret. The closet is not just for gay people. It's just that gay people were honest that we were closeted. Everybody's closeted and everybody plays pretend. They all walk around saying "I am" even though they have no idea who they are. What they're often saying is "I want to make you feel comfortable so I'm going to contort myself and to who I think that you want me to be." That is a form of injury that I as a poet could spend eons trying to write and never articulate. The pain of feeling like the only way you can belong is by betraying yourself and shapeshifting knowing that that love is dependent on your self-disappearance. The reason that trans people like me inspire so much envy, which is a synonym for transphobia, is because people look at us and they say "What do you mean you get to be free now?" I thought we had to play pretend. I thought we had to play hide and seek our entire lives. And trans people have the moral fortitude and clarity to look at the world and say No.