Artists often use botanical forms to challenge the idea that transgender bodies are "unnatural."
Historically and in modern digital spaces, fruits and vegetables are used as "botanomorphs" (metaphors for the body) to bypass censorship or express desire:
: In exhibitions like Transecologies , artist Green uses ceramic mushrooms to represent "queer spores" that grow stubbornly, suggesting that trans identity is a natural, albeit non-normative, part of the ecosystem.