It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
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The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
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