I am an avid fan of sci/fi, mostly the stuff that was written between 1930 and 1990. One of the most successful sci/fi writers of the period was James Tiptree, Jr, who was really a woman named Alice Sheldon, who was an intelligence officer in WWII, worked for the CIA and then became a research/experimental psychologist.
Dr Sheldon shot and killed herself and her husband in 1987, leaving a suicide note written years before.
In 1977 she wrote a story I found impossible to put down until I finished it. She published the story inder the pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon.
"These things which man purports to admire-the noble, the brilliant, the splendid-these are the very things he cannot tolerate when he finds them."-----Mark Clifton
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It seems that gender identity conflicts make for a uniquely deep and tormented thought process. What you say about this writer is echoed through many writings of other gender ambiguous persons. Unfortunately, the end of suffering for many gender ambiguous persons lies in suicide.
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