Wrong sex Morris's life
Morris, a self-described "transgendered person", realised at the age of three or four that she was a girl despite being a man. It bothered her that the soul was being packaged in the wrong body -- since Freud's theory became widely accepted, gender confusion has often been labeled a "sexual paraphilia," and their origins are naturally seen as sexual problems. But for Morris, the scope of his own gender issues is much broader than sex issues. It is spiritualized and more related to the cognition of his own identity. In She he, she looks back, saying: "It's not a sexual relationship, it's not favoring one sex over another. It is a burning, lifelong, indelible faith..." In Morris's understanding, gender is a matter of soul as well as self-unity. "Gender is the soul, the talent, the interest, the environment, the feeling of the person, the light and shadow, the music of the heart, the leap or the wink, the more real life and love, not the sum total of sex organs, ovaries and hormones," she said. It was about every aspect of her life -- "not just the sexual impulse, but everything she could remember seeing and hearing and smelling, the buildings, the sights, the bonds of family and friends, the power of love and trouble, the satisfaction of the senses and the satisfaction of the body."