text:  describing how is it that we fit these non-normative gender-sex categories into our very normative gender-sex system, which on the one hand we can read critically and say, look, they were still deviant identities then, but we can also read them generously and say, look, the rabbis were willing to say there are categories such as Tumtum and Androgynous and Ilonit and Saris, these named identities, these named people who didn't fit into our categories and we wanted to figure out what to do with them.