Occupation: Author Birth: March 15, 1948
‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’..
It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of….
My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to r….
There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On t….
The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented….
Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there shou….
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new nam….
The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than others. The ec….
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate di….
This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end u….
Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything was a question. "Dad, is there a hea….
What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?.
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature..
Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're fre….
I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That's cool. But, I really don….
Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it..
Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work….
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and….
The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Addi….
I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The lin….
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 ….