S/he Wanted To Become A Football Player
/Gender fluidity: he <--> sh/e <---> she
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-- thanks to Persons of Nonbinary Gender — Awareness, Visibility,
and Health Disparities, 20December2018, New England Journal of Medicine.
Two-spirit,
agender, gender
fluid, genderqueer,
gender-nonconforming, third
intersex, whatever terminology:
in many cultures throughout history,
some people have identified as neither
male nor female, or as nonbinary outside
boundaries of a strict male–female dichotomy.
Myself more or less cisgender - meaning identity
aligned with sex assigned at birth - student during Sixties
never tutored by Harvard Medical School plastic surgeons
in anything except how to make incisions to remove vagina
then replace it with artificial phallus plus two synthetic balls
with sterile care so there’s no foreign body reaction & infection;
in retrospect, now knowing what was primarily unknown back in
those sad days, I am ashamed how badly we treated that thick bearded
lady who came in taking testosterone, instead of realizing he was transgender.
By Gerard Sarnat
From: United States
Website: http://gerardsarnat.com