Andrea Long Chu Says You Are a Female, and He’s Only Partly Wrong

December 10, 2019 | by Angela Franks

Transgender performance of femaleness can only be a parody, because no amount of “bottom surgery” will make a male into the kind of human being who has the natural power to bear a child. The woman has the spontaneous, natural power to make space for the other, which embodies the spiritual reality to which all human beings are called.