ABSTRACT

Gender-free or gender-bent presentation is something new again in the world. Not too many folks are up to speed on it yet these days. It behooves us to be compassionate and supportive of someone who's just coming to grips with the com­ plexities of their own desires, especially if we our­ selves are their first exposure to people like us. The way I see it, I was pretty scared of this freewheeling genderplay when I first went through my gender transition ; so I just expect others to have similar fears, and I try to treat people the way I'd have liked to have been introduced to all this gender stuff back when I was a kid : with some kindness.