Justice

My interest in gender variance from a clinical standpoint pretty much satiated, I focus more on how to live in the world with it. Having met and read so many stories about people on what we now recognize to be ostensibly a type of spectrum, I realize there is no perfect model of predictability to be found. Years ago, for example, I could never have envisioned to what degree detransitioners would become a reality with any weight or relevance and yet they have.

At the end of the day humans are so exceedingly complex because the input variables that constitute them are so numerous. There are genetic predispositions to which we add cultural, societal and parental influences which play heavily into the mix. The good news is that within my lifetime we have gone from erroneous assumptions about a perfect binary to an understanding that both sexual orientation and gender identity are more malleable than we dared to admit. What remains now is the cultural cleanup work of having that become normalized.

Perhaps once completed, we can then stop putting people into ghettos and stamping their foreheads with insignias. Because by now you might have realized that we are getting all tangled up in our own language; a lexicon which doesn't do proper justice to people and their full identities.

I don't know about you but I hate being branded like cattle.