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“It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop.”

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Book:Beyond the Gender Binary

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“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why even bother when a canvas is within our reach? Is it really a choice, when you don't get to select the options you are given to begin with?”

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