And indeed, many of those who feel driven to transition are anything but body-denialist: they are painfully aware that their bodies cause them grief, and desperate to accommodate themselves to those bodies. They are among the people most ill-served by an ideology that pretends bodies are inconsequential and easily changed, and that what makes a person who they are is a sexed soul, or a ghost in a machine, or a program running on a computer, or whatever metaphor you prefer. The truth is that we are our bodies, and our bodies are our selves.
