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Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure or violence.Safe gender is going as far in any dire...more

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…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

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Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

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I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link...more

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The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”.There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it ha...more

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It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender identity but gender perception. Some friends and acq...more

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Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

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While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative ...more

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It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

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Being transgender guarantees you will upset someone. People get upset with transgender people who choose to inhabit a third gender space rather than “...more

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We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the rea...more

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When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - comple...more

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Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an ama...more

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We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual pref...more

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From the moment we take our first breath (and sometimes even before that, what with sonic imaging technology), the cry “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl” u...more