“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“And as we get farther and farther with our science, we get more and more into a discomforted zone where we have to acknowledge that the simplistic categories [of sex and race] we've had are probably overly simplistic.”
— Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
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“There are … Labradors that I know that are more capable of informed, intelligent, mature decisions about sexual relations than some 40-year-olds that I know.”
— Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
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“Nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female … we actually draw that line on nature.”
— Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
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