I couldn't remember when I'd stopped willing to be trans and started wanting to be trans. If there were a difference, I'd forgotten it.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the complexity of identity and desire in the context of being transgender.
Hari Nef's quote delves into the personal experience of navigating gender identity, emphasizing the shift from the act of willing oneself to be a certain identity to genuinely wanting to embody it. This suggests a deep internal realization and acceptance of one's true self, which can often be a complicated journey marked by various emotional states and societal pressures.
In practice
During a panel discussion on gender identity.
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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