Genderqueer memoirs are now ever-present and contribute to a landscape of voices that dismantle normative values communicating that the subject can no longer rely on the body to signify gender. These new narratives leave no doubt whatsoever that we dwell in a post-idyllic era, in need of new descriptions. This paper looks at four memoirs of gender that consider relation of gender to time, to history, and to sexuality. These narratives, I suggest, offer a good conception of gender today. In search of new metaphors for gender, I turn to Robert McFarlane's proposed view of temporality through the metaphor of “deep time” to consider psychoanalysis's stake in orienting the field to non-normative gender formations. My reading of narrated experiences of gender transitioning from the supple notion of deep time is also an appeal for a better lens through which to explore gender.