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Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Importance of Gender in Life

I think one thing I appreciate in your writing and reflection is that you understand how natural it is. How we're wired to want order. It's natural for our minds to put these kinds of binaries as the cornerstone of worldviews. And so I had no choice but to be excruciatingly aware of it. Being a mid 20th century gender binary bound transsexual is pretty old hat, you know, being gender fluid or gender queer are much more interesting to people.

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