10 June

Transgender. Gender identity. Non-binary. What’s interesting about these ideas is that it seems to me that the surest way to affirm a binary, is to make it the bookends of a continuum. That makes it not only real, but the foundation of the entire framework. A binary is a relative, not an absolute. Something is hotter or colder than something else. There’s no such thing as hot or cold, by themselves. There’s no such thing as a pure man or pure woman, biologically or psychologically. That’s actually the opposite of the idea of transgender, or gender fluid, which both rely upon absolutes as definitions of gender and sex, which then get mixed and matched in various combinations.