diff --git a/content/ally/007.md b/content/ally/007.md index 8c119a1..2c1e59b 100644 --- a/content/ally/007.md +++ b/content/ally/007.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ I think of myself as a trans woman, not a woman. I think of past me as male, not > You have ship-of-Theseus'd yourself into what you are. -I was not Madison. I am not Matthew. I can't deny his existence, though. He was him, and to erase that, to toe the party line and say I've always known that I was Madison, would do a disservice him. +I was not Madison. I am not Matthew. I can't deny his existence, though. He was him, and to erase that, to toe the party line and say I've always known that I was Madison, would do a disservice to him. He got in all those relationships. He loved so hard it hurt. He dreamed of being held. He struggled with the words. diff --git a/content/gender/07.md b/content/gender/07.md index 45160de..cb934cb 100644 --- a/content/gender/07.md +++ b/content/gender/07.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ I didn't try to be a woman. I didn't want to. I want to be a trans woman. It's not masochism. It's not appropriation. I don't think so. I think it's living true to myself. I think it's being honest and saying that who I am involves being trans, and that ignoring that would be doing myself a disservice. -> "I was not Madison," you said. "I am not Matthew. I can't deny his existence, though. He was him, and to erase that, to toe the party line and say I've always known that I was Madison, would do a disservice him." +> "I was not Madison," you said. "I am not Matthew. I can't deny his existence, though. He was him, and to erase that, to toe the party line and say I've always known that I was Madison, would do a disservice to him." Yes, but it goes beyond that. I'm not saying simply that I was not a woman and then either at some point did become one or that, at some point, *will* become one. I'm saying that I live in that liminal space between. I can't be anything other than what I am. I can't live anywhere else.