1. I will use masculine pronouns throughout because that is how Karl Baer/N. O. Body identifies himself.

2. Prosser, Jay, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 104Google Scholar.

3. Foucault, Michel, Herculin Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite), trans. McDougall, Richard (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980)Google Scholar. While the interest of recent scholarship in Herculine Barbin's memoir is in part attributable to interest in Foucault, still, the memoir has been profitably cited by scholars in fields ranging from biology to linguistics. For a well-known engagement with the memoir, see Butler's, Judith critique of Foucault's introduction: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999), 119–35Google Scholar.