No, not at all.
Anywhere.
Yeah, that’s right.
No, I went, crashed into, courses that I’m interested in.
Their alma mater, their university.
They’re worried that without diploma I would go nowhere, but they are also happy because their professors are now my professors. I went to the same university they did.
I went to universities, and I started listening in to those graduate studies.
Yeah.
Because I want to learn from the Internet, and the school is preventing my hours in the day.
The same year.
Compared to "Mom and dad, I’m dropping out of high school," it’s minor.
Of course.
Maybe when I was 14 or something. Yes, why not?
I don’t know. I was part of the immersion. My mom’s pretty transgender, herself. She was brought up as a very tomboyish person. Look at Judith Butler and you have a pretty good image of my mom. She behaves in a way that’s unrestricted by gender stereotypes. So, I was ...
Yeah, of course.
It’s fashionable, actually.
That’s right.
Not at all.
24.
No, there is no famous example, but it used to be that Audrey, Aubrey are both gender neutral or male‑ish names a few hundred years ago. I checked before choosing my name.
Yes, you can check that.
Before Audrey Hepburn it’s a neutral name, and a few centuries before it’s a male name.
It used to be a male name, before Audrey Hepburn.
Yeah, he is OK with it. Also, I never really liked this idea of a chosen people kind of thinking. There’s a lot of cultures with this chosen people kind of thinking, some major, some minor. The dynasty lineage is one of those chosen people things. As a practitioner of ...
Not at all. I checked my new name with him. If hadn’t agree, I wouldn’t have used as well.
The other thing is that it’s not so traditional Chinese. I never really liked this, what they call 法統, the traditional lineage. They’re from the Han dynasty, all the way to the Republic of China, which was the culture my father was brought in. He invested a lot of his ...
Long Feng, when we say Long Feng, Feng means female. When we say Fenghuang it means male, because Feng is a male bird in the Fenghuang pair, but when we say Long Feng, Feng always means female. It’s a transgender word. It’s the most transgender word I can find in ...
Phoenix is a pan‑gender word in the Chinese language. In 龍鳳 it’s female, and 鳳凰, it’s male. It’s a traditionally...
First of all, Feng...
Tang Feng, which is like Phoenix.
Original name? My original name is Tang Zonghan, traditionally meaning the Tang dynasty inherited the Han dynasty. It’s a extremely traditional Chinese name.
Yeah, but that’s the only document that was changed.
No, not at all. I changed my name. That’s for sure.
No.
I wasn’t socialized in a gendered manner. By adolescence I would already have quit school actually and joined my first startup. In that startup there was LGBTQ people in the five co‑founders. It’s not considered something that a gender role should have anything to do with our startup. That’s the ...
Yeah, my parents didn’t gender discipline me, so I never really felt like I should behave as a boy or girl. Around adolescence my main counterparts are all bulletin board system friends and people on the Internet where gender really means nothing.
Long as I was born, something like that.
I understand people, I recognize people by their values, also, not by their genders, or roles, or whatever. According to the golden, or even the silver, rule. I expect the same in return.
A lot. It means that I do whatever I think is OK to do, not thinking whether it’s a female thing or a male thing. That’s it.
In the simple way, it’s...
Unrestricted by pronouns. My performance is not gender informed. That’s a technical way to say it. The Judith Butler way to say it.
Yeah. It’s unrestricted by pronouns, basically.
No, both.
People are generally fine with it.
It’s common in the hacking scene, actually.
