by Amy Bloom
The men and women who devote themselves to these and other questions, to the ins and outs of our private selves, our visions of self, our presentations of self, our hidden histories and baffling communiqués, are psychiatrists, psychologists, sexologists, and academics; they are joined on the field by political activists, surgeons, endocrinologists, entrepreneurs, and lawyers. I am indebted to all of these people, and I, like they, have been taught by the thousands of men and women who live their lives, tranquilly or in distress, with confidence or with trepidation, as cactus and platypus, bearded lady and girlyboy, and push all the rest of us to see that Nature contains multitudes. Although she makes mistakes, these black tulips, these examples of Nature’s range, human creativity, and gender’s mutability, are not necessarily among them.
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