Females

In 2019, Chiu's first book, Females, was published by Verso Press. The thesis was that anyone can become female and that being penetrated during sex defines womanhood.

Chiu, the now Pulitzer Prize winner, writes in the short book, describing himself as once being a sad, pretentious boy, furious about rape, hopelessly addicted to pornography.

The truth is, he writes, I've never been able to differentiate liking women from wanting to be like them. I transitioned...for gossip, compliments, lipstick, mascara, crying at the movies, being someone's girlfriend, for sex toys, for feeling hot, for getting hit on by butches, for Daisy Dukes, bikini tops and all the dresses, and my God, for the breasts.

getting F'd makes you female because F'd is what a female is.

Guess what doesn't make you a woman. Never will.

as New York Magazine critic Andrea Long Chu has written in her book Females 2019, the biological category female as it is understood today was developed in the 19th century as a way of referring to black slaves.

to that extent Chu observes a female has always been less than a person.