performing-gender

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual preferences. We change our outlook, we change our minds, we change our sympathies. Yet when someone changes hir gender, we put hir on some television talk show. Well, here__ what I think: I think we all of us do change our genders. All the time. Maybe it__ not as dramatic as some tabloid headline screaming __he Was A He!_ But we do, each of us, change our genders. In response to each interaction we have with a new or different person, we subtly shift the kind of man or woman, boy or girl, or whatever gender we__e being at the moment. We__e usually not the same kind of man or woman with our lover as we are with our boss or a parent. When we__e introduced for the first time to someone we find attractive, we shift into being a different kind of man or woman than we are with our childhood friends. We all change our genders.