 Both are part of the queer community and have worked extensively with patients of all genders. In writing Gender Without Identity, they hope to provide other psychoanalysts with guidance on how to help patients navigating gender, as the field has a checkered past and present of pathologizing queer and trans people. But they also propose what some might consider a controversial theory, that everyone's gender, whether you're cis or trans, is shaped by your surroundings and experiences.