At the beginning of 2015 -- the "Year We Obsessed Over Identity," as The New York Times observed -- I disrobed during a video interview for the What's Underneath project by Style Like U. The first question was: When did you first know? As in, When did you first know you were a woman? Would you believe me if I told you that I don't know if I've ever known, since I don't really know what a woman is, other than a concept that exists outside me -- still, I know that I have felt like one, a woman I mean, yet the only way I first knew was from males? Will you suspend prejudgment long enough to entertain the possibility that gender can be so relative? To understand where I am coming from, consider...
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