When the Punchline Is Just a Punch

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“I’m just fucking with you,” he says. It’s about gender; more specifically, manning up. I’m non-binary and consider gender to be the fucking problem that aims to control who and how we fuck. He hasn’t seen my transness yet, but he also has been seeing it the entire time, for if transness is part of who I am, then it is always present regardless of whether I “come out” as something other than a man. He appealed to science in…