Binary

Binary

Two sides.  Two states. On and off.  1 and 0. Not so much an essential truth as a way of encoding information.  “[V]ery fine people, on both sides.” Two parties, two genders, two sexes. Obviously not always true, just a way of organizing things.  So utterly false, at times, that the binary fails to organize, fails to encode. 2018. Telling mom about the ADT and openingly wondering if it is a trans experience.  “Honey, you’re not trans.”  “How would you know?”

[T]here are at least two components to successful identity transformation:  (1) how a person self-identifies, and (2) whether a given society is willing to recognize an individual’s felt sense of identity by granting her membership in the desired group.  (Tuvel, 2017)