הילדה שנשארה לבדה: הבטחתי לעצמי שלעולם לא אהיה פליטה ynet.co.il - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ynet.co.il Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 2, 2021
When the world went into lockdown five months after I started taking testosterone, I thought it would be easier not to see people for a while. Maybe they wouldn’t hear my voice go scratchy or see up close the hormonal acne splattered across my face. Alone in my apartment, I imagined that all my difficulties in being seen and recognized as transgender-nonbinary would evaporate. No one would gender me except myself; my pronouns would be right there in the text box on my Zoom screen.
So I was surprised by how much my gender instead seemed to almost evaporate. No longer on the alert for how to signal a restaurant’s waitstaff that neither “he” nor “she” applied to me, or for whether colleagues and neighbors would use the right language devoid of anyone to signal my gender
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