As a cis grad student who writes about how to include the trans community in discussions of gender, identity, and sex in the high school biology classroom, I found myself confused by Julie Peters’s A Feminist Post-Transexual Autoethnography from the title. A close family member recently transitioned from male to female, and I was unaware of post-transsexual as a status. Fortunately, Peters clarifies in chapter 6, “My Accommodation to the Social World,” that she does not specifically identify as a trans person; this is how she describes herself:
But I did not identify as a woman in any essential sense. It would be more accurate to say I identified as a person who wished to relate to the world as if I were a woman—that is, culturally a woman.…But I no longer saw it as an identity (a noun). It had become how (an adverb) I lived in my social...
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