Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear;...

Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn’t distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what...

That’s my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.

It’s an arbitrary thing if you’re born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It’s about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines...

Though doctors understood that they could make mistakes, they generally believed that medicine had the answers, and that it was the patients who were mistaken as to their own gender.

The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn’t run there, though, because it didn’t exist yet; I had...

I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.

Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show “that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They...

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow...

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.