Lochlann Jain: anthropologist versus categories

Fascinating. I remember my puzzlement 20-odd years ago when I gave birth. People kept asking "What did you have?"... "A baby of course!" was my reaction (what? Did they think I'd just had kittens?), but they seemed obsessed with the baby's gender (she's non-binary as it happens, although obviously I didn't know that when she was only a few days old). Gender's never been important to me, and it's always baffled me why it is so important to other people. Each person is an individual, and of great worth as that individual, not whatever category you try to stuff them into.