In order to even get a seat at the table, people have to believe that you exist. When it comes to gender non-conforming people, we are still at square one -- still having to argue that we are real. What's never questioned here is, whose standards of authenticity are we being held up to in the first place?
-- Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary, p. 37
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