There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the … - Kate Bornstein

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Kate Bornstein

There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman. ' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

Acceptance, Differences, Place, Takes, Tolerance, World

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

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My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

Break, Important, Law, Recognize, Resistance

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

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The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.

Alternatives, Choices, Opportunity, Subscribe, System, Two