Elaina Guerrero

I don’t want to carry on the tradition of the gender binary. I want to analyze it, question it and reject it altogether, all the while encouraging others to do the same.

Should transgender people feel the need to keep changes to themselves, sacrificing their comfort so others don't have to struggle in transition with them?

Too many men in my life have caved to peer pressure when in the presence of other men, remaining silent or participating in demeaning humor and language.

No matter how much I have distanced myself from womanhood, I still have to deal with a part of myself that is gendered by others.

While Trump may have empowered some men to feel as though they can proudly say and do racist and misogynistic things, in the end, these systems of thought were in place well before Trump came into office.

Marriage as an institution has helped men gain property, wealth and power at the expense of women, and I wanted nothing to do with that.

There is nothing inherently natural or normal about heterosexuality; it has simply been institutionalized as the acceptable and legal sexuality.

Comphet wasn’t just a naturally occurring system in my lesbian brain. It was instilled in me, beginning at a very young age.

I couldn’t be a lesbian. Not because I was certain I liked men as well as girls, but because I didn’t want to be treated as less than human.