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Qaplunaatut does not have a word for what Silna is, but Goodsir tells them that, just as Goodsir may be herself: Silna’s wife, Harriet, when within the privacy of their home, Silna may likewise dress as Harriet’s husband and also be acknowledged between themselves as the opposite sex.
“But I’m not a man,” they sign to Harriet, to remind her of what they’ve already said about themself being not a man or a woman but a third sex that is between either, and Harriet says:—
“Of course, just as I’m not really a woman,” and Silna does not have the heart to explain themself yet again only for their sweet, compassionate, intelligent wife to still not understand them; to never understand them. It is more comfortable to pretend that there is understanding; that Silna is not naturally, deeply alienated even from their sole remaining beloved one; and that the ill fit of Silna’s new life in Britain does not make them sicken and ache.
Silna is attacked by strangers on the streets of their new land. Then they are comforted by their wife.
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