I wonder what would happen if everybody who gets upset over award show recognition decided to stop paying any attention to award shows. Genuinely, I wonder. That’s not an attempt at backhanded criticism. I get why, in industry terms, it at least theoretically matters who is nominated for these silly things (i.e.,…

Er, I’m saying I was in the situation that the people ostensibly competing at a disadvantage against trans women claim to be in. I was placed not only at a competitive disadvantage, but in actual physical danger, because the rules of the sport had no way to account for my peculair condition.

Eh. His first trial balloon was sent out in very early November. Presumably, if it was in response to something, it was in response to whatever had been going on just prior to that point.

No. Bernie’s supporters were very clear that it wasn’t that they didn’t want to vote for a woman. They just didn’t want to vote for that woman. If there were some other woman running who had a platform that was similar to Sanders, they assured everybody that they would totally vote for her. I feel like they even gave…

Likewise, your anecdotes about puberty and such are just that: anecdotes. They do not rely on data. You have to work on that.

The only way Bloomberg’s candidacy makes sense to me is that he thinks he can help Biden (or worst case Buttigieg) get elected if he can become a candidate that draws the fire of the progressives. He will attack them as unrealistic and dangerous, positioning himself to Biden’s right, and hoping his criticism will hit…

People forget how much of Sanders’s support in the primary genuinely was the “Not-Hillary” protest vote. It’s why even before Biden was in the race and Sanders was far and away the most well-known candidate, Sanders hasn’t ever polled as high as 25 percent nationally.

Warning: You’re treading awfully close to blood libel territory. People tend to be sensitive to that kind of thing, even in obvious jest.

Obviously, caucuses in general favor people with better statewide organization. I’m speaking mainly about Iowa, as that was what we were originally discussing. Iowa, followed by Nevada, tends to be the most attended caucus because of its national prominence, and at least in recent years, that has translated into…

In the primary? No, of course not. Not running against any other of the potentially viable candidates. In the general? Of course I would, because I’m a grown up. Something I wouldn’t have done is spend the entire post-primary season bellyaching over how much I wish I didn’t have to vote for the person I was going to…

Strictly speaking, what happened in 2008 and 2016 is that the caucus results mirrored the polling. By the time we got to the 2008 caucus, the field had narrowed down to three viable (and almost ideologically indistinguishable) candidates and a handful of also rans. The result was nearly identical to pre-caucus polling…

You have implied, but you have not stated, that trans youth athletes should be required during preadolescence to undergo periodic chemical therapy to halt or slow the process of puberty. You have not stated this, because of course you don’t believe it to be true. Because what lunatic would think that? But you have…

It’s not a question of whether there are huge numbers. It’s a question of whether it should be allowed. We all agree that voter fraud should not be allowed; however, we understand that voter ID laws are a means of robbing the impoverished (usually ethnic minorities) of their democratic franchise, so we weigh the cost…

Well, (a) not all trans people receive hormonal therapy and (b) there’s not much in the way of verifiable evidence that those who do undergo hormonal therapy while also maintaining rigorous physical training regimen do not maintain a biological advantage. There are numerous examples of trans women competing in…

That’s a weird analogy. You were disadvantaged but still wanted an opportunity to compete. You’re holding it up as a parallel to people who want to enter competitions where they have a natural, physical, chemical and biological advantage. It doesn’t really work as a logical parallel.

Because she’s already demonstrated a higher ceiling in this field. As much as Sanders supporters like to assert that he is the most popular politician in America (a dubious claim all by itself), they never seem to understand why such a popular and well-known guy has never polled above 24 percent nationally in this…

I think the dirty secret is that whoever beats Trump (assuming that somebody does) that person’s presidency will not look all that much different from any of the other candidates who might have beaten Trump. All of them will be hamstrung by the same system that requires them to strive for nothing better than…

Eh...maybe. Don’t overlook the value of having older voters who are more experienced in the caucus process. A lot of times, in these large fields, the winner of the caucuses is decided by second-choice voters (i.e., people who come supporting a candidate who doesn’t reach the minimum level of support). I think in the…

Whatever floats your boat, I guess. I think he’s the kind of handsome that feels not quite of this Earth. Like his features don’t quite go together in a way that is hard to put a finger on, but that feels...off.

Odds are, she will eventually drop out. But not that soon. And you will be left trying to make sense of the fact that Joe Biden is the nominee when it was supposed to be Sanders!