Gender

“I identify as an attack helicopter.” “I identify as a giraffe. But that doesn’t make me a giraffe. Just because you ‘feel’ like X doesn’t make you that X.” Ever heard these arguments? Of course you have. They are some of the oldest transphobic tropes, trotted out again and again despite being rebutted over and over. … Read more

  I call myself nonbinary but that’s just a convenient fiction, like all genders. In reality, I don’t know what “I” am except that I am an “I,” a human being with a particular set of ever-changing beliefs, desires, and dispositions. And even with that fleeting knowledge, I know that my “I” is also a … Read more