genderyomi-deactivated20240903:
genderyomi-deactivated20240903:
i think a lot of people would be happier if they viewed labels like homosexual and transgender as social technologies rather than identities
that is to say, “transgender” is a useful way for me to convey how i move through the world to others rather than some essential qualia. i am of a class of people with an infinite number of relationships with their genders
“There are not two sexes, there are n sexes; there are as many sexes as there are assemblages. And since each of us enters into several assemblages, each of us has n sexes. When children discover that they are reduced to one sex, male or female, they discover their powerlessness: they lose the machinic sense and are left only with the signification of a tool. And then a child really does fall into depression. They have been damaged; their countless sexes have been stolen!”
Gilles Deleuze, The Interpretation of Utterances