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Henry Oliver's avatar

I love it when you read Shakespeare

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Rachel Leah Childers's avatar

While certain parts of this resonated with me, (viz, `interregnum') I'm not sure how I feel about the part locating names in `denial of the father'. As a trans person whose current name was chosen by my parents before birth, and in fact before the differently gendered former name that subsequently accrued to me by mere accident of ultrasound, the experience has been felt less as a rebellion than as a return.

Maybe this is not a common transgender experience; your essay has made me consider whether by this fact of ordering I might be, discursively, cisgender, or even a detransitioner.

Disorienting.

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