Does it feel like something is being taken from you? No, Sophia said, no, but you, for example, you are moving away from butch into, well, manhood. I think being butch is a gorgeous, expansive thing, I told her. Who would a separate definition be for anyway? Some people are trans and some people transition and that’s not your loss, I thought. That’s not anyone’s loss. I don’t know what new definition is required, I said. You’re talking about yourself as if you are everyone, Baby said, with her hand firm on my leg.
