
Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Cost of Being a Breaker of Covenants
Gender as a man was a promise to people that the way that I was acting was who I really was. That gender was real was my real gender identity and it was consonant with my body. But when people take me as authentically female, then that covenant is not being fulfilled because I have an X and a Y chromosome. So if I present myself convincingly as female, which is something I fear that I'm not able to do on the radio, your voice actually is the voice that I aspire to,. but hormones don't change male to female transsexual voices.
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