Pronoun Trouble

Laura Nelson
8 min readSep 11, 2019
(Creative Commons; Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1hZGDaqIw)

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Get this: twice during my still-in-process transition, I have misgendered myself.

The first time was after a piano concert in the Cathedral where I worship. I was talking with the chief liturgist about the Mozart piece performed by the pianist, when I exclaimed “Yes it was great, Mozart is wonderful, but I am more of a Beethoven guy!” The second was in describing my childhood to a friend: “you can imagine…

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Laura Nelson

Writer, philosopher, information technologist,guitarist, neurotic, polite radical, avid and indiscriminate reader, Episcopalian, trans woman.