G > Recent Status Updates

“Nothing we know about T or sex differences implies that we have to accept current levels of sexual assault, harassment, discrimination, or coercion. On the contrary, social progress depends on scientific progress. Understanding the forces that drive our priorities and behavior, and how genes, hormones, and environment interact, helps to equip us to combat the expression of darker parts of our nature.” [p. 25]

“The immersion in Village life, with the hippies, the gays, the drug dealers […] in Greenwich Village in 1968, I could walk with my freak flag held high and nobody was going to bust me.” (p. 92)

“If you carried enough personal weight and magic, if you were powerful enough, you could be different […] You could be who you were and the rest would just have to stand down and let it be.” (p. 85)

“and the Motown divas, men and women, who know you’ve got to play a little bit of the white man’s/rich man’s game. You have to make thoughtful compromises that don’t sell out your soul, that let you reach just a little bit higher until your moment comes and then /you/ set the rules.” (p. 79)

“His first response was laughter. It was funny. Then, not so funny. Then, he got angry. Then, finally, [my dad] popped his burning question: ‘Bruce, are you queer?’ He wasn’t kidding. He’d have to get over it. But first, it would get a lot nastier.” (p. 50)

“I do know this is what [Elvis] did: lived a life he was driven to live and brought forth the truth that was within him and the possibilities within us. How many of us can say that? That we committed all of our selves to something?” (p. 41)

“Alex [Lee] knew that to help the gurls, you had to hire the gurls and you had to put them in a position whereby they could help themselves and help other gurls too.”

Miss Major on the founding of TIP (Transgender in Prison Committee) later TGIJP