The Roles We Play

Part of an Epigenetic Landscape from Waddington, C. H., The Strategy of the Genes (1957). I had not felt any change, but to the people around me it was as if I had been profoundly transformed. Strangers held the door open. Old people stopped to chat. Women smiled at me, a new and novel experience. I had transitioned, and rather suddenly at that. I was still getting used to it. One moment I was yet…