Dec 28, 2024
Or we tend to blame the person whose gender characteristics don't match their physical sex as if it's that person's fault for making us feel confused. Wrong. It's our fault for not being secure and sensitive enough to allow that person a vehicle for honest self-expression. I challenge you to consider why it would ever be necessary, except to survive under coercion, to conform to someone else's notion of maleness or femaleness, either biologically or socially.
Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man (2nd ed.), p. 8
