"Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53/Her best-selling 2006 book about that experience, 'Self-Made Man'..."

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"... made her a media darling. But it cost her psychologically," says the headline to The NYT obituary.  

["Self-Made Man"] drew comparisons to “Black Like Me,” the white journalist John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book about his experiences passing as a Black man in the segregated Deep South.... Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. She was, however, interested in gender and identity.... 

She was a libertarian. She tilted at postmodernism and multiculturalism. She argued for the rights of fetuses and against identity politics, which she saw as infantilizing and irresponsible. She did not believe that transsexuals were members of the opposite sex after they had surgery and had taken hormones, a position that led one writer to label her a bigot. She was a contrarian, and proud of it.... 

Being Ned [that is, researching "Self-Made Man"] had worn Ms. Vincent down; she felt alienated and disassociated, and... she checked herself into a hospital for depression. She was suffering, she wrote, for the same reason that many of the men she met were suffering: Their assigned gender roles, she found, were suffocating them and alienating them from themselves. “Manhood is a leaden mythology riding on the shoulders of every man,” she wrote.... 

We're told the death was "medically assisted, or what is known as a voluntary assisted death." 

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