And yet, with regard to the issue of gender, I came away from Purity feeling uneasy.
It doesn't matter how old I am, what gender I am.
Class and cultural differences are much harder than gender, I think.
That's just simply who I live with and trust, the gender I feel comfortable with.
It means that I was born female, but the gender I identify with is male.
Says Lee (Jess Barbagallo), a winning young all-American type of uncertain gender: "I just wanna be ready for tryouts.
He added: "By playing a little bit with gender, I thought I could make a different kind of love triangle at the center of it.
In rejecting my "female" gender, I am not enforcing binary stereotypes, but asking why the hell we have them in the first place.
I have every right to walk home alone and as a performer or comedian, regardless of my gender, I believe I have every right to do any material.
While I didn't seem to have a gender, I did have an "industry" – which he wanted to join (run, more like).
That process of disappearing into your new gender, I think, has made it more difficult for a sense of trans community and trans awareness to take fire – even among trans people.
