@waclark57: "Life expectancy, as you well know, is simply more than just access to healthcare. There are plenty of wealthy people in the US that can get any health care they want and yet they die young."

@waclark57: What needs to be done (which we will unfortunately never do because we don't have the political will) is a single payer universal health care system, not unlike Canada's.

@waclark57: Well as a physician and an AMA member, I think he's spot on. Or are you going to say that I have nothing useful to contribute because your definition of useful means "agrees with me".

@MizJenkins: And the Matthew Shepard Act protects transgender people too even though Matt was a cisgender gay man. Hell your COBRA benefits if you get laid off are from the Consolidate Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.

@RationalPerspective: "So you think that any evidence that women are outperforming men in certain areas means that women are inherently better at certain tasks then men, but if men outperform women in certain areas you can chalk it all up to sexism?"

@RationalPerspective: "Do you have any sources..."

@ShadyLane: And you could just as easily disguise yourself without altering your gender. In fact, since most people can't pass as the other gender reliably without significant medical treatments, you would stick out as a sore thumb. A man who has a high woman's voice or a woman with a deep voice and prominent adams…

I think the article was largely talking about the future... 10-20 years down the line rather than implying women had reached some turning point in equality.

@ShadyLane: Why would anyone's gender - or their ability to change it - affect national security? In fact there are many people who are gender fluid who do live sometimes as one gender, some as the other. And that's harmful because....?

@Cairn: Like or dislike has nothing to do with it. Trust me, there are a lot of people I dislike quite a bit more than a belligerent drunk. I would have no problem treating El Rushbo even though I think he's a vile person.

@Cairn: So a person who chooses of his own free will to get shit faced drunk, and in that state endanger and abuse others, should also expect that others provide for his comfort and relief? Would you say the same if instead of hurling fists, vomit and racial epithets he got behind the wheel and drove a car as his…

@Cairn: I actually disagree with the OP, but I think you are over-reacting a bit. Everyone is passive aggressive in some ways... its like masturbating, its a universal human experience.

@Norton: Yes, but *all* thirteen-year-olds worry about what their peers think of them. I could have given a rat's ass what my family thought I looked like at that age, but I *was* concerned how I looked to my peers.

On the plus side, he won't be looking at other women.

Behold his noodley appendages!

It works in the hospital, airplane, and in other high risk areas so it should probably work for my 2 day trip packing.

I work at the only ER in town with a relatively large college. I get to deal with young women like these three on a nightly basis, often after they have made some poor choices around consuming alcohol or other drugs and are projectile vomiting in the back of the BMW one of her sisters got from mommy and daddy.

@Old Jean Gallagher: Erm.... except that most of the UTIs you get are from the bacteria in your colon. (E coli, which is the most common one is one of many 'fecal coliforms' that commonly cause UTIs).

@ashley: It won't help you. Resistance is a community issue. Now *recruiting* people to be vegetarians and thus decreasing the consumption of meat.... that would help.

@Heather_yeah: The second. You aren't more prone to UTIs, just more likely to have a resistant bug *if* you get one.