Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. -Dorothy Allison
To me, this basically means you choose what gender you are inside of you. Just because you might be a male on the outside, you can feel and be female on the inside.
I agree with this because, who says someone else chooses your gender. You can clearly be born in the wrong body. Being born as a female but feeling and having a male mentality. It's not fair. It's you who chooses who you are.
This is clearly seen in Almost Perfect.
Sage was born a male. Once his sister was born he began to wonder why he couldn't wear dresses and play with dolls like her. It's what he wanted, yet they wouldn't allow it. Once he reached age 10 he came out and said he wanted to be a girl. Started wearing dresses, as well as taking hormonal pills to where he began forming female parts. Until the point Sage became the she, she always wanted to be.
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