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18+ space. 30s. bugs will be dogs and dogs will be bugs and boys will be dogs and bugs and we all eat the rot we are the rot but we live // caimanchurchard.neocities.org
18+ space. 30s. bugs will be dogs and dogs will be bugs and boys will be dogs and bugs and we all eat the rot we are the rot but we live // caimanchurchard.neocities.org
![Surprisingly, Browne turns in his consideration of the possible sexual variance of hares to a concept readily legible in our own moment as the sign of gender variance: "trans." In a single paragraph, Browne uses the words "transition," "transmutation," "transformation," "transfiguration," and, twice, "transplantation" (147). In fact, Browne finds "trans" so useful to think with that he coins two new trans words-the verbal noun "transexion" and the verbal adjective "transfeminated"-to which he makes recourse when discussing the theory that hares are not hermaphrodites, but that, instead, they change sexes back and forth each year. In order to refute these claims about the "iterated transexion of Hares," Browne calls on other medical authorities who had investigated supposed "transexions" in persons assumed to be women who had miraculously transformed into men.4 These physicians, Browne claims, "affirm that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion, and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first, although succeeding years produced the manifesto or evidence of their virilities" (148). On this account, it is not that these women transitioned into men, but that they had always been men-that they were born that way-and that their bodily transformations merely affirmed the person they had always been, "producing] the manifesto" of their manhood. Thus, Browne claims that, like those humans, hares that seem to have transitioned from F to M "have undergone no reall or new transexion, but were androgynally borne"(i48)-that is, born male, if ambiguously so-and have simply been mistaken for female.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a52vg74bfzoyklnqd7kcyjul/bafkreidl7jznruzadrwp3yl5hxrzkjwwmfuxoapli2ar23xg4p6z3xsigu)
