I am now on the cusp of my fifty-sixth year of life. I have no concept, no idea, no definition of gender. To me, women and men are equally strange and fascinating creatures. How can you not question gender? It seems so artificial to me ... Although I am still exhausted from my journey through gender, I have a deep sense of peace, fulfillment, and joy. I've carved paths for myself in my search for language to define who I am, only to finally realize my sense of self cannot be caged by a word. There is nowhere to go but inside, nothing to be but a human being.
-- Kory Martin-Damon, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. 230
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