I don’t know. I was part of the immersion. My mom’s pretty transgender, herself. She was brought up as a very tomboyish person. Look at Judith Butler and you have a pretty good image of my mom. She behaves in a way that’s unrestricted by gender stereotypes. So, I was told, was my father’s father, my paternal grandfather, and so on. It wasn’t seen as something unusual in my family.

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