McCloskey compares crossing gender boundaries with traveling to a foreign country, because she

A) realizes that foreign travel challenges our sense of personal identity as deeply as does gender-crossing.

B) wants to show that anybody could benefit from gender crossing, just as they might benefit from foreign travel.

C) considers gender crossing to be a form of travel through which one can return "home" to one's original gender a more experienced and compassionate person.

D) is trying to convey the idea that gender crossing is not significantly different from other unusual but socially accepted transformations.


D

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