Transgender Portraits and the Things a Body Won’t Tell

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Transgender Portraits and the Things a Body Won't Tell

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/transgender-portraits-and-the-things-a-body-wont-tell

The New Yorker/By Michael M. Weinstein   11/17/2015

"In transition, one's gender identity may feel so nebulous, so unexternalized, that even one's body seems not to be in on the joke. The issue isn't just that the truths trans bodies tell—the evidence of change inscribed on them, suggesting their previous forms and features—may not correspond to the felt truth of inhabiting such a body. It's that, however closely we examine trans bodies, the experiences written on them remain illegible from the outside. Has the person with breasts chosen not to pursue top surgery because their breasts are a part of their sense of self? "