The Riddle of Gender Quotes

“In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.”
― Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights

“Straight people, like gay or transgendered people, have complex and multifaceted gender identities.”
― Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights

“Avery important change that has yet to be made is the time we transgenders are no longer called 'sex changes'. After all, consider this: we are NOT CHANGING anything! Indeed, we are merely CORRECTING pronouns, names, manner of dress, hormones and less to MATCH what has always been in our brains...”
― Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights

“And who can speak more authoritatively of what it is like to inhabit the middle ground between biology and culture than gender-variant people? An individual who has inhabited the social roles of both and and woman, with all the cultural baggage that accrues to both states - or to neither- acquires a kind of gender gnosis: a secret knowledge denied the rest of us who live in our assigned boxes, M or F, with really probing the boundaries.”
― Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights