Category Crisis

Panics over detransitioners and the word “queer” show just how much we want life to be cut and dry.

Life is like a… wall of well-organized yarn balls, I suppose. Photo by Edgar Chaparro on Unsplash

I have been thinking a lot lately about categories. I’m reaching that point, three years after starting testosterone and a year or so after my first injection, where it’s not always certain which gender category I’m being placed in until the conversation is already…