Jeffry J. Iovannone
1 min readDec 29, 2017

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You beautifully and clearly lay out how the five Euro-American gender postulates you identify function to undermine trans people via language use.

Your ideas have helped me think about one of my current projects, which is an exploration of how contemporary transgender memoir and photograph disrupt, through narrative representation, Western notions of gender that privilege anatomy over identity — or, in your words, how these representations “obstruct the habitual attitude.”

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Jeffry J. Iovannone
Jeffry J. Iovannone

Written by Jeffry J. Iovannone

Historian, writer, and educator with a PhD in American Studies. I specialize in gender and LGBTQ history of the U.S. Email: jeffry.iovannone@gmail.com

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