Rigid definitions of identity.

Someone wrote…

So many people have such rigid, almost bureaucratic definitions of identity. Want to be called another name? Well, you’re going to have to get it legally changed, first. Want to be referred to by different pronouns? Get ‘the surgery’ first, then we’ll talk.

Well, I don’t know about them, but I don’t need anybody else to validate my identity.

How do you fight the “bureaucratic definitions of identity”?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?


Posted by on February 18th, 2009 at 08:00 am

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