This opened a line of argument that led directly to Stone’s essay, which called upon transsexual people simultaneously to resist the old ways that medical science had encouraged them to behave as the price for providing services—creating false biographies to conceal their sex change from others, for example, or trying to pass as a cisgender person—while also soliciting them to speak out in a “heteroglossic,” Babel-like profusion of tongues about all the imaginable genres of gender difference there could be, if only the homogenizing tendencies of the medically dominated discourse of
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