⎯ At the end of her monologue about the cost of the plastic surgery that she had in order to construct this ideal image of herself, Agrado says “it costs a lot to be authentic…you are more authentic the more you resemble what you’ve dreamed of being.” Agrado is both male and female, in the sense that she feels comfortable with her male sex organs, but strives towards this feminine ideal in other avenues of physical appearance. Agrado’s definition of authenticity relates to how her identity is represented through her body and what she choses to do with that body in spite the gender expectations entailed with her biological sex. She complicates the binary between male and female, and reveals that there is no real point of origin for gender. In
