The only problem I have is the picture where he's holding up a little pink baby dress. You'd think somebody who grew up as a man in a woman's body
wouldn't be so quick to impose gender stereotypes on his own daughter.
Maybe I've lived in New York City for too long, but I don't understand everybody's obsession with imposing labels on this guy because of what he chose to do (or not do) with his body. In smaller communities people would naively ask my boyfriend and me, "Which one of you gets to be the woman?" But in NYC, people are familiar enough with gays understand that sometimes guys do things that would typically be called female behavior, and that doesn't make them any less male.
While having a baby is the ultimate expression of femininity, if today he calls himself the baby's father, his gender identity is male, and he goes back to living a male life, what gives us the right to question that? Because it's difficult to understand? Because it's uncharted territory? That's OUR problem, not his. He's queer, his baby's here, get used to it.
Maybe I've lived in New York City for too long, but I don't understand everybody's obsession with imposing labels on this guy because of what he chose to do (or not do) with his body. In smaller communities people would naively ask my boyfriend and me, "Which one of you gets to be the woman?" But in NYC, people are familiar enough with gays understand that sometimes guys do things that would typically be called female behavior, and that doesn't make them any less male.
While having a baby is the ultimate expression of femininity, if today he calls himself the baby's father, his gender identity is male, and he goes back to living a male life, what gives us the right to question that? Because it's difficult to understand? Because it's uncharted territory? That's OUR problem, not his. He's queer, his baby's here, get used to it.
