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born 1958 United States

Jennifer Finney Boylan (born James Boylan, June 22, 1958) is an American author, political activist, and professor of English at Barnard College of Columbia University (since 2014) and a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was formerly professor of English at Colby College in Maine from 1988 until 2014.

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Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby.

She's Not There (2003)

But what does that mean, a male brain, or a female brain, or even a transgender one? It’s a fraught topic, because brains are a collection of characteristics, rather than a binary classification of either/or.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jennifer Finney Boylan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.