The anti-femininity movement harms everyone. James Baldwin once said that accepting our limits is crucial. However, my community and I have chosen to reject the limits of gender. Why can't I be both boyish and sweet, soft spoken and tough, emotionally accessible and sexually dominant? And why can't my dad be butched and study French poetry, or my mom be maternal and run a construction site? I don't believe in binary gender, but transforming it requires effort.
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of that meant he wanted to embrace everything that our culture associates with “masculinity.” Story written and reported by Lewis Wallace, with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee.
Music by Alex Weston, Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, and Kevin
MacLeod. Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.