Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it—and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That’s why Native people were guarding it.

That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your life.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.