Scottie None’s Reviews > Becoming a Visible Man > Status Update

“People can argue abstractly about the "real-ness" of my life all they want, but this cannot change the fact that I exist, and cannot change the qualities of maleness people observe in me.”

“If we [follow] any prescribed path in order to be ourselves—no matter who prescribes it: the trans community, the medical establishment, or the cisgender assumptions of stereotypical (and therefore socially validated) gender behavior— we are only setting ourselves up to be judged by an arbitrary standard that can be changed at any time by those to whom we've relinquished authority over our own authenticity.”