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This article explores various ways that dominant discourse around identity disclosure and use of self are enacted in the supervision of graduate students. More explicitly, the author explores their own process of clinical disciplining over the course of graduate school through a tapestry of transpoetics and object relations theory. This exploration is presented through extended metaphor to underscore the ways Westernized, white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied identities continue to be unconsciously used as the baseline by which clinicians with different identities are measured and interpreted by those with evaluative power. For many trans clinicians in particular, the ability to pass graduate school hinges on our ability to pass as non-trans. Through the policing of trans existence in psychoanalysis, trans clinicians experience violence and colonization with regard to their minds and bodies, and by extension the minds and bodies of their patients. This is a call from within the institution to trans the cis-tem of psychoanalysis through a radical transformation of the supervision space.