Torrey Peters
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49 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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meaning that everybody in the world will have to make the explicit choice to cultivate their gender that trans people already have to make. And so the question is sort of like, what if everybody has to choose their gender the way that trans people do?
My joke about it is that actually we already live in a world where everybody has to choose their gender. And everybody already is choosing their gender. It's just they're not aware of it. They're like, oh, I was born in this gender. Well, sure, you were born in that body, but you're choosing your gender. You're choosing how you present yourself based on the constraints that you have.
What kind of clothes can you afford? What kind of body do you have? How much time do you have to work on your body or negotiate that stuff with other people? These are all constraints that we already have. And so the irony is actually like a dystopian world where everybody has to run around trying to find the things that they can scrounge up to make a gender that feels good to them.
I don't think it has a different dimension, but it definitely has different stakes. I spend part of every year in Colombia, and in a year I have to renew my passport. And the F marker, which I've had for years and which corresponds with how I look and things like that, is going to be taken away from me. And I show that passport. There's a lot of police blocks because the roads are just policed.
So I show that I'll be on an empty road somewhere showing my passport to a couple of cops. I do that frequently. And in two years, you know, I don't know if it's going to be danger or not, but I'm going to be showing something that has an M on it. in an empty road. And that's a small thing. I wrote an essay about that for New York Magazine.
That's a small thing, but it's a new and increased danger in my life. That's a material danger in my life. That is going to be the case in so many ways for so many people, that things are going to be more dangerous. Where prisoners, they're moving all the trans women prisoners, or they're attempting to, to move them into male jails. That's going to cause violence.
Your listeners can look up the word V-coding, V-coding, to see what happens to trans women in male prisons.
Yeah. These kinds of things, they have horrific stakes. And I hope to be able to kind of write into those stakes, even though I'm no longer eligible for an NEA grant. I still hope that I'll be able to write into those stakes.
Thank you so much for having me and for such thoughtful questions. I really appreciate the chance to come back.
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