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Universalizing perspective on the gender/sex binary with critical analysis of the conflation of sex and gender. Critiquing "reading" of bodies as a texts; examination of gender policing in the field of medicine: pathologizing, gatekeeping, and polarized language. Liberatory potential in reiterations, reclamations, and representation. Analysis of "borderland" analogy; transgender "border-wars." Limits to autonomy; limits of discourse. Dialogue around fear of "the foreigner" and "otherness." Movement towards resources for all identities and embodiments. Argument for the deconstruction of the heteronormative metanarrative through poststructural/queer iterations and visibilities in healthcare. Examination of healthcare options for transgender persons nationally; argument for creating a politics of possibility/poststructural ethics for medicine.