djwfyi quoted In Transit by Dianna E. Anderson
For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a …
It is not that truth does not exist; it is that truth is hard to develop a communal definition of.
— In Transit by Dianna E. Anderson, Emily Vanderwerff (Page 18)
This quote comes at the end of the first chapter that begins the exploration of language and our terms man and woman and the sheer weight and baggage those bring with them in our culture and society. They are so engrained, and the engraining itself shapes how we view the world. How we even can view the world.
So the hard work is coming to an understanding communally of what truth is. Society rejected the idea that the earth revolves around the sun for a long time. But truth is worth it.
On to chapter 2.