“you wish that other journalists would have the guts to do the same with their past writing that missed the mark”

I’m guessing it was because they didn’t think Brandon Teena was a man; they thought he was a woman dressing as a man. Like Minkowitz wrote, “...a belief of the early Nineties: that trans meant (solely) ‘surgically altering your body to align with your gender identity.’”

Same. I saw this post last night but couldn’t bring myself to open it. Caster and Dutee’s stories hit home for me: I have a genetic anomaly that gave me a recessive y chromosome. As such I have one non-functioning ovary and one low-functioning ovary. I’m stocky, more muscular than the other women in my family and have…

I just wanted to say how refreshing this thread has been. I am South African and I have been horrified at how Casta has been treated on the world stage. I don’t feel our own Government or sports bodies have been vocal enough in supporting her. The general feeling here is we support her and are incredibly proud of her…

“I am Mokgadi Caster Semenya. I am a woman and I am fast.”

Jesus, dude. Definitely don’t tell “LGBT” what to think. Yikes and yuck.

And how do you know that he’s not gay, queer, pan, bi? You don’t. We don’t. He dated Emma Stone but at the end of the day that really doesn’t mean anything concrete.

You’re so brave for telling “LGBT” what to think.

This is how you ally!!

Once again, black women to the rescue.

This is amazing! I would love to see a side-by-side comparison of prison reform, recidivism, police accountability, and community trust in South Fulton compared to, say, Oklahoma city where the criminal justice system is overwhelmingly white.

Part of the problem is that Evangelical Christianity is so insular that they honestly have no idea what people outside their circle think. It’s like in God’s Not Dead when the Pastor tells the kid that this debate will be a way to bring the word of Christ to people who might never hear it otherwise.... in Louisiana. I…

“By and large, it’s made by people who for the most part are only interested in saying things they already know, for people who basically want to hear what they already believe.”

Also: unless abuse is present, other people’s relationships are nobody’s business but that of the people involved!!

Your experience with your step-mother has no bearing on any other human being pursuing relationships you are not a part of.

Love to you hun. Sorry about ignorant comments about BPD and know that plenty of people do not feel that way.

i cannot begin to put into words how horrible and wrong and misinformed and rude and awful your comment is.

BPD is a set of coping mechanisms that can be changed through therapies like DBT and CBT and medication. People with BPD can learn and practice new coping mechanism that, with hard work, can replace their old ones and effectively remove the label. Yes, “cured” is not the right term, but one can move out of the…

It’s fun how you cite the stigma surrounding BPD and then go on to perpetuate it in the rest of your comment, completely ignoring that a) you have no idea about Davidson’s personal life, and b) his openness about his treatment. Jesus Christ. Having BPD is hard enough without people like you acting like we’re serial…

I liked this better when I thought she was an adult performance artist who just looked like a kid.