Deirdre McCloskey on Gender Crossing

"... As May West might put it, 'I was Snow White . . . but I drifted!' Until 1995 I was named — and was — "Donald." ... Married for 30 happy years, with two grown children (who alas have not spoken to me since 1995), I live on Printer's Row in Chicago with my Norwich terrier named Will Shakespeare and my Episcopal church across the street — which is why I'm always late for church!"

Deirdre McCloskey

Articles Related to Gender Crossing

See also Crossing: A Memoir, 1999.

Globe and Mail, Saturday, 20 October 2997: "Free to be she — or he."
The Bailey Controversy

Back and forth with Professor Seth Roberts, 24 August 2007.
Letter to the Times, submitted August 2007 (not yet published).
"Politics in Scholarly Drag: Alice Dreger's Assault on the Critics of Bailey," submitted to Archives of Sexual Behavior, August 2007 (not yet published).
Link to transcript of a KQED debate, 23 August 2007.
"Complaint against the practices of J. Michael Bailey in the "research" for his book The Man Who Would Be Queen," July 29, 2003.
"Queer Science," McCloskey's review of Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen," Reason magazine, November 2003.
Letter published in the Chicago Reader, December 2003.
Exchange of letters, Reason magazine, December 2003.

"Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall, 1998): 77-85 (also in [13.] The Rhetoric of Law.)
"Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," Eastern Economic Journal 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553; reprinted in Lingua Franca, early spring 1996; shortened version in Harper's, July 1996.
"It's Good to be a Don if You're Going to be a Deirdre," Times Higher Education Supplement, August 23, 1996, 1 page.
"Transformation," Iowa Alumni Quarterly, Summer 1997, p. 49.
"Becoming Stories." Pp. 112-117 in Linda Roodenburg, eds., Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997. (Dutch section, pp. 118-123).
"From Donald to Deirdre: How a man became a woman and what it says about identity," excerpt from Crossing: A Memoir (1999): Reason magazine, Dec 1999; Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000.
"Before Deirdre there was Jane," excerpt from Crossing: A Memoir (1999) (courtesy University of Chicago Press).
"Slate Diary, Nov 29, 1999-Dec 3, 1999" [invited week of five diary entries, focusing on gender], slate.com., and archived, reprinted in J. Kantor, C. Krohn, and J. Shulevitz, eds., The Slate Diaries. NY: PublicAffairs, 2000.
"Crossing Economics." The International Journal of Transgenderism [a peer-reviewed electronic journal], 4 (3), July-Sept 2000.
"Letters on 'The Man Who Would Be Queen'," Chicago Reader Jan 2004.
"Queer Markets," comment in Kevin G. Barnhurst, ed. Media/Queered: Visibility and its Discontents, forthcoming.
"Caring for Gender: Sister, Psychiatrists, and Gender Crossing," (Cleis Press? I'm not sure if this piece actually came out.)

See also
Maxine Kumin's review of Crossing, A Memoir, November 14, 1999, The New York Times.
Robin Wilson: "Leading Economist Stuns Field By Deciding To Become a Woman," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 February 1996.

Related: Lynn Conway's website.

"Lynn is the first truly successful case to come out of long-term stealth and tell her story. That story should give hope to young transsexuals. It should help parents see possibilities for happiness for a transsexual daughter-to-be, especially if they were to support their child's efforts to transform a "boy's" body and become a woman early enough in life. It should also give employers pause for thought before firing someone - just because of their transsexualism.

"The day will come when gender transition is no longer be seen as a sad, somewhat shameful and tragic event, but instead as a wonderful life-giving miracle for those so unfortunate as to have been mis-gendered at birth. Lynn hopes to live to see that day."