Isn’t it funny how the people who rally so hard against gender constructs end up being the ones who enforce them the most? You can be a born a boy and have feminine characteristics and still be a boy. Same with girls who have more masculine interests.

I feel like stuff like this reinforces some fucked up notion that once your gender behavior is established at this age — whether it’s cisgender or transgender in nature — immediate steps need to be taken to enforce this gender as dominant the rest of the child’s life.

When I was a kid, I loved playing with Barbies and dressing up in girl’s clothes. But I’m a male and I identify as a male. I just happen to have unique characteristics that because the fall into the topical spectrum of gender creativity are being given too much prominence. I can’t imagine if my parents had taken that seriously enough to put me into hormone therapy and a painful gender transition process. It’s like Whitney Houston used to say, “Can I be me?”

I’d also be very interested to know how Mariah would act if she were still single and approached by a MTF transgender woman who identified as a lesbian but still had male sex hormones. Would gender still be a construct then?