The Desire to Express Human Characteristics

Holly Whitaker: We have something on the inside that we're trying to express on the outside and the world gives us a kucharman's to express that. So I say I'm expressing gender, but what I'm really expressing is these bucket of human characteristics," she says. "I might understand myself only as deeply connected to strangers because that was the only truly real part of myself that would be welcome since being understood as a girl"