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:

: An artist and activist whose work often directly addresses society's fascination with and repulsion from "transsexual bodies," sometimes utilizing everyday objects or themes of "trans veganism" to discuss liberation and bodily autonomy.

: Academic research has highlighted how the cultivation of peas—often stripped of their natural hermaphroditic capacities—serves as a metaphor for the rigid human gender binary and the "trans potential" that exists when those limits are removed. 2. Botanical Slang and Sexual Metaphors

While there is no single world-famous "piece" with that specific name, several artistic and cultural works use vegetables and plants to discuss trans experiences: 1. "Transecologies" and Natural Metaphors

: Online trans communities often use the "tomato is a fruit vs. vegetable" debate as an analogy for biological sex versus gender identity. Just as a tomato is biologically a fruit but culinarily a vegetable, a trans person’s biological markers do not dictate their social or lived identity. 4. Direct Artistic Responses

: 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.