Growing up without gendered pronouns.
3 Reasons Friends(+) Thought I Might Be Trans
- "You have sociolinguistic speech patterns reminiscent of a gay man, but I figured you're from California and they all just sound gay over there."
- "I noticed that you were unusually assertive for a woman, but I figured you were just American."
- "It wasn't very hard for me to notice that you don't have a cervix."
'Coming Out' Doesn't Begin to Describe It: Message from a Trans Survivor
For trans people, revealing their history calls the truth of their gender into question.
What Johnny Thinks of Men Who Reject Women They've Already Slept With After Finding Out They're Trans
“My mom makes this anchovy dip everyone loves then they ask her what it’s made of and she says anchovies and they say oh no I don’t like anchovies.
You’ve already had the dip. You like anchovies.”
Seeing Charles (Not His Real Name)
New York may be vast but it can be tiny sometimes. I'm sitting at a cafe in the East Village and a guy I went to college with is sitting across from me. I even directed him in a play. Charles is a famous screenwriter now, and clearly deep in thought. He doesn't recognize me. I was a man the last time we saw each other.
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