You have a degree in psychology? Me too, and I think you might need to revisit yours if you think that being transgender is in any way a ‘bandwagon’.

1. Young children who experience gender dysphoria often end up gay rather than trans. So no, they aren’t automatically in tune with their gender identity. It’s more complex than boy or girl - or at least a young child’s understanding of boy or girl.

But let’s not confuse a very bad attempt at hitting on someone with rape.

I’m all for race-inclusive casting, but I’m also against race-conscious casting.

Believing 100% that you’re something that you are not is a mental illness and enabling them by playing along with their delusion does them no favors.

It doesn’t help that, for a long time, “gender” and “sex” were synonyms.

That and other dictionary definitions reflect the common use of the word, as many tend to conflate sex and gender, but also show the primary definition as being a different phenomenon to sex.

They were actually never synonyms. Gender used to be a grammatical term, and was broadened in the 1950s to be a separate term from sex, usually referring to a person’s own internal sense of being male, female, both, none etc.

I’m pretty sure it has been explicitly denied by Moffat at some point. Which makes it all the more odd that they have been making at least some sort of minor appearance each season.

I see someone else mentioned Jamie, but what about Victoria, Zoe, Nyssa, and Turlough?

That’s probably why. With less money involved you’re going to get less studio interference in terms of anything seen as even remotely ‘risking’ their investment.

I judge by how people treat each other and not what the person they decide to fuck or marry looks like.

Actually, ‘sexual racism’ appears to pretty closely associated with holding more general racist attitudes. So it does make a difference.

They existed, but minority means just that. You’re not gonna argue that there was a significant number.

there was not a diversity of authorship back then.

because there wasn’t diversity of authorship back then

you’re making an assumption that a judge holding a book from a woman and a book from a man is just going to go ahead and pick the man, because they don’t want women to win things?

The next time I hear about a black transwomen winning something, I don’t know if she’s a good writer vs the staff trying to hit quotas.

it’ll just cause larger backlash and end up also ruining some of the prestige of the awards as it could cause a ‘you only got it because you’re a woman’ response.

I think I’ll start playing devil’s advocate.