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Chris Tina Bruce
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Nature loves variety. Unfortunately, society hates it.
It is highly likely that you have passed a transgender person on the street, at the grocery store, in the bank, at the gym, and, yes, even in a public restroom, without even knowing that that person was transgender. A transgender person is not a clone of another transgender person. He or she is different and unique, just as is every other person. Transgender people are those who transgress gender norms of society by attempting to transition into the correct gender into which they should have been born. Transgender people are not the same as transvestites, cross-dressers, drag queens, or drag kings. Being transgender is about gender identity, whereas being a cross-dresser or drag queen or king is not.
Just for the record, I disagree with this sentence -
QuoteBeing transgender is about gender identity, whereas being a cross-dresser or drag queen or king is not.
Mostly because I don't feel qualified to tell a cross-dresser or drag queen or king what he or she is or is not.
I like Kate Bornstein's term "Transgressively Gendered". It covers everyone who breaks society's Gender Laws, from Butch Lesbians to Cross-dressers.