Yeah, thank you. I wanted to write something that would feel like nonfiction as empowering chocolate, rather than nonfiction as medicine, and so I have chapters that are pretty in-depth, and then a bunch of sort of interstitial short pieces in between the chapters that are profiles of different communities, how they view gender. When I started doing research on my previous non fiction book, No Way, They Were Gay?, the earlier one in this series for readers age 11 and up, I was really struck by two pieces of information. One was that the frequency of intersex individuals being born is 1.7% which is the same frequency as people who are born with red hair. I was like, well, wow, I don't actually know anybody that I think is intersex, but I actually know a lot of people with red hair. And then I was doing research on We’wha, who was a third gender person of the A:Shiwi people, which we call Zuni, and they were celebrated as an Indian princess back in the 1800s in Washington, DC. And then when it was revealed that they didn't have the female body that everyone expected them to have, there was a huge scandal. And doing that research, I learned that there were hundreds of Native nations in North America that saw gender differently than we do with our sort of colonized western perspective. And that was really the beginning of starting to do the research for The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie. Doing it, I was most surprised, and surprise seems to be my organizing principle for nonfiction... when I was a kid in school, history was really taught like it was names and dates to memorize. It was very dry and boring, and I never felt like I recognized myself in any of it. And so the stuff that excites me about history are the things I didn't know about, and now I'm like, Oh my gosh, that's so cool. The arguments that people make about the gender diversity that we see in our world today, and especially among younger people, research is telling us that one out of eleven young people identifies outside the gender binary, and the response to that has often been, "Well, this is new. This didn't happen in our grandparents time." You know l'dor vador, generations upon generations. And it's like, Wait a minute. Actually, generations upon generations have had this kind of diversity. Doing research, I stumbled upon this thing, the six genders of classical Judaism. And I'm like, What? What are you talking about? Some people say that there's seven. One source said that they were eight. And then I dug into it, and I discovered this amazing resource online called Trans Torah. So we have zachar and nekevah, right? Like male and female. There's androgynos, which today we would call intersex. There's a bit of a variation on androgynous. Tumtum, which would be nonbinary; aylonit, which would be trans or gender non conforming; and saris, which would also be trans or gender nonconforming, and also including eunuchs, that's how they got six or seven. And I'm sure the listeners to this program are familiar with the Midrash and the Talmud and the Gemara and just basically the idea that there's parallel texts that analyze and discuss what's in the Bible. There are over 1600 references to these other genders over a period of 1600 years. There are actually more references to diverse genders than there are years in that span. I mean, you know, you go to Israel, you go to the Western Wall, and it's so binary. You know, women pray here, men pray over here on the left. Like the fact that it's our tradition, it's my tradition, and I didn't know anything about it, felt at once like an incredible revelation and also slightly like an outrage, like, how are we not talking about this? And there's a really beautiful sermon that I quote pretty extensively in the book, all about twilight. And if you'd indulge me, I want to just read a tiny bit from this, because it's so beautiful.