Wiscon, another note

[redbird]

I wound up mentioning two different people I know on LJ during Wiscon programming, on two different panels. For our panel on disappearing the body, I mentioned knowing someone who makes a point of not revealing their gender online. And in the panel on transforming sexuality, one of the panelists asserted, when transgendered people came up, that there might well be people who would want to be phenotypically both male and female, but not people who would want to be neither. So I pointed out that, in fact, I know someone whose preferred gender would be neuter, and that the doctors he had consulted had asserted that his preferred gender didn't exist, and that if it did nobody would want to be it. (You'd think his consulting them would have led them to question at least the latter, but most theories can stand up to a few inconvenient facts.)

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