Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack Pageant in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe....

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According to author and academic Kathryn Bond Stockton, “gender is queer for everyone.”  She doesn’t mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange.  “Gender is strange,” she writes,” even...

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