Emerge 2020: What I Read – Not an Endpoint

There are a lot of popular myths about trans people, from the ridiculous to the hopeful.

There is the ‘born in the wrong body’ trope – as though our real bodies are out there somewhere waiting for us to discover them. So where are they? Are they wandering around with an equally dislocated inhabitant animating them? Are they in some mythic state, like a limbo body storage unit with inept management?  I’m not disputing the very real sense some trans and nonbinary people have about having been b...