"I got super into sauna. I studied Finnish sauna design, then ended up building a wood-fired sauna fr..." — Torrey Peters

There are times when I think that trans women have a certain wisdom on gender, and can see the ways it's performed that cis people can't. Then there are other times I think trans women are idiots who are just as confused about gender as everybody else, we're just confused from a slightly different position.

I have a lot of sympathy for people who detransition.

A phrase like 'gender dysphoria,' I hear it, and it's like a granite rock. There's no way to enter any emotion into that phrase, it's just so calcified as political medical nothingness for me.

I was learning to use a chainsaw because I had to cut the trees for firewood and build a bridge on the logs. Nothing super impressive, but I had to be like This is a spruce, this is a balsam fir. We have beech and maple. I learnt all the different trees and what they do.