From He To She

Casey Plett, an MTF transgendered person, contemplates pronouns:

A few times, even I slip up and refer to myself as he in the third person, which feels rotten. (I’m the one most used to calling myself he, I have verbal muscle memory too.) I go home to Oregon and he is abundant, it gets harder to hear. I change my driver’s license and my American passport, and I spend long, long minutes staring at the new Fs. I dislike looking at the Ms my Canadian passport and birth certificates—which I can’t change because I haven’t had surgery—and these markers suddenly don’t feel bureaucratic or meaningless at all.