My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix Performing Transgender Rage

"The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in the shape other than that in which it was born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster's as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding range in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist."--Page [1].