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The gender one is and the gender one desires are often thought of in psychoanalysis as disparate strands of experience that materialize in different identity registers. This brief communication suggests that transgender experience can illuminate the porosity of these two categories; insofar as lesbian indexes both subject and object of sexual attraction, sexual orientation is not only about sexual desire but also subject to gender politics.