R. A. Briggs
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293 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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And really, transition is much more complicated than that.
So it involves a lot of social changes, like getting the markers on your IDs changed, for instance, and asking for, you know, male name, male pronouns.
It can involve various medical changes, which generally I think are the business of the person transitioning and not the business of others.
Although, you know, lots of people have been kind enough to share information about how this medical stuff works.
So people might take hormones.
They might get various surgeries.
They might not.
They might not do any of those things.
It really depends on the individual person.
But the main link, I think, is between the person and the gender category and then from the gender to the sex.
Kate Bornstein is the earliest example of somebody I know of who uses the phrase consensual gender.
She says gender should be safe, sane, and consensual.
What she means by that is that
People should get to opt in or opt out of gender categories based on what they want, rather than what the people around them project onto them.
So the idea is not necessarily that you should have some kind of libertarian free will.
You don't have any reason to choose one rather than the other.
Maybe you have your reasons and you're sort of stuck with them.
But given your reasons, you should be able to tell others.
Yes, I'm a woman.
No, I'm not a woman.
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