Thought for the Day

"There are no objective journalists in a Fox hole."

-- Janeane Garofalo

Reviewing Some of My Favourite Writers

Yet radio and television interviewers still repeat the same questions to me again and again. "But were you born male or female? Why do you think you are the way you are? Were you born this way? Was your mother overbearing? Did your father want a boy?" These questions have no meaning for me.

I don't think the point is: Why are we different? Why have we refused to walk one of two narrow paths, but instead demanded the right to blaze our own? The question is not why we were unwilling to conform even when being beaten to the ground by ridicule and brutality.

The real burning question is: How did we ever find the courage?

-- Leslie Feinberg. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue