“I don’t want to be a boy,” a nine-year-old tells me at my internship location. She’s wearing the same black hoodie she always wears with the hood pulled over her head, despite the fact that she’s been indoors all day and isn’t planning on going outside for perhaps an hour…

I’m a woman in a man in a woman, stitching myself together everyday. — I fell in love with the Emcee from Cabaret the first time I ever saw him. It was a dirty kind of love affair, just because the message of Cabaret, as a musical, is so pertinent and profound, and being so deeply in love with the character that represents all…

Diagnostic criteria for Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood For females: 1. Strongly and persistently stated desire to be a boy, or insistence that she is a boy (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages from being a boy). 2. Persistent repudiation of female anatomic structures, as manifested by…

The following article contains spoilers for the 1999 film, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think that [Patricia Highsmith] would have been flummoxed by the public openness of many people about the idea of gender fluidity, which is something she clearly explored in the Ripley novels — though she’d probably hit…

The transgender umbrella, according to a popular photo on Facebook, is made up of two subcategories: binary, which includes trans women and trans men, and nonbinary, which includes a myriad of genders such as genderqueer, genderfluid, demigender, bigender, agender, neutrois, “and more!” Further commentary on what makes someone nonbinary is…