For a long time I shied away from doing this because I’ve never been entirely happy within my own assigned gender identity. It’s something I’ve been aware of since childhood but have never done anything about due to social pressures. As a long haired teen I could pass, but as a bald and bearded 40 something that’s no longer the case. Those who have followed my reading lists here may have picked up that I am a trans ally, and Shon Faye’s book The Transgender Issue in particular was brilliant.