“Gender implicates us with others, makes us vulnerable to their address, to the ways they do and do not call our names, the ways they do and do not hold us in mind, the ways they do and do not lust after us. In the face-to-face of the dyad, there is scant occasion for the analyst to refer to the patient in the third person. The pronouns exchanged between them are more commonly the direct address of I and you. The announcement by patient to analyst -"I want to be called they'" —thus does not necessarily express something straightforward, but perhaps indicates the hope to be held in mind under this new name beyond the beat of the 45-minute hour.” —On Taking Sides: Clinical Encounters with Non-binary Genders