Rethinking Masculinity: What Queer and Trans People Taught Me About Being a Man

Rethinking Masculinity: What Queer and Trans People Taught Me About Being a Man

I was the youngest “girl” — meaning assigned girl — in a large Midwestern farm family in the 1970s. We didn't talk much about gender, but masculinity wasn't exactly an abstract concept. It was everywhere. It drove tractors. It fixed things. It wore work boots. It got up early. It hauled heavy things without first conducting a committee meeting about whether those things actually needed hauling. …