The Peacock 1583

I just had coffee yesterday with Philip. He asked me a very leading question "If, thirty odd years ago, you knew then what you and I both know about gender, would you still have gone through with it?" I asked him to give me time to answer, because I had never really thought it through. This actually kept me up half the night. But now I think I can answer it, and here it is. The answer is no, I would not have bothered, because I need not have bothered. Do I have regrets? None at all. My anatomy, my balance of hormones really play but a shadow role in this ongoing Shakespearean drama about gender. And one does have to reckon with that the gender binary has always been part of our human biology and history, since long before our earliest ancestors left Africa...