After being discharged, Whitney determined
the male gender identification was «arbitrary» and explored living as a woman but found that did not fit either, the lawsuit said.
Also, it seems winter is going through a
gender identification crisis since I just referred to it as both a
male and female in the same paragraph.
From Louise Bourgeois's massive, brown member, Fillette (Sweeter Version)(1968 — 99), a dangling sculpture that seems to rot in real time; to Lynda Benglis's photographic depictions of the ambiguous boundaries between
gender / sexuality
identification in Secret 3 (1974); to EJ Hauser's gestural shrine and Whitman's brilliance, Big Whitman (2012), each artist has adopted the
male body as their subject, immortalizing them into objects married with sweeping sentiments.