# the government took my gender

I'm left with all the pain
the image fails to render;
I don't know who I am

the government took his gender
left naked and alone
she is who he could have been
a plain to see woman

the government took its gender
they locked it in a lab
why, would they take it, break it
as if it were a sham

the government took her gender
left bared and all alone
she's crying, trying, fraying
but no one hears a man