I was about to say, “hmmm, that doesn’t look like a box with a kickstand...”

This is the first thing I thought of.

I feel like this that you just said should absolutely be in the article above.

Is this listserve entirely about trans issues? If so, I agree that’s it’s bonkers that in eight years they have never had a trans member.

Mid-terms won’t even matter. Republicans will rush someone through and get them seated ASAP.

the Tacoma City Attorney’s Office declined to file charges.

Crazy people who assume Ashanti and Ja Rule have delusions of grandeur or people in the press with an interest in fabricating beef by pitting two very successful, powerful, talented people against two far less successful, powerful, and talented people. May as well be bear baiting--it never goes well for the dog, but…

17. Marginalized

Until RBG or Kennedy die and are replaced with authoritarian theocrats. Then begins the area of the 6-3 decision.

That’s what I was going to say: what makes POC think that calling the police is a two-way street?

Ettel . . . says she was not motivated racially to snitch on the 8-year-old, but was tired of hearing the noise.

those placing paramount importance on a person who self-identifies as a woman being treated as a woman in respect to high level athletic competition can pucker up and kiss my sandy Syrian ass.

What is fundamentally at play here is that a great deal of people will choose to uphold the central conceit that “anyone who says they are a man/woman/etc. is in fact a man/woman/etc. simply by dint of that self-identification” over whatever principle underlies the balancing of competitive, athletic competitions on…

Your point is well taken; I also think there was a great big elements of preemptive damage control to the piece. But as you’ve now demonstrated, pointing this out doesn’t require making light of the fact that someone was raped—even if you don’t like them, and the person occupies a relative position of structural…

But a consequence of that transition should probably be that trans women and trans men taking testosterone have to compete with men.

Quoting myself:

I think MIT should probably make public whatever evidence they uncovered in their investigation. They can anonymize witness statements, and otherwise protect the identity of those involved, but the fact is that people are not going to be satisfied unless they can judge for themselves that Diaz is not a danger to his…

Is it cool now to make light of sexual trauma if it belongs to someone who we deem to have done bad things?

But if the whole point of biological sex/“gender” segregation of sports is that (generally speaking) “men” and “women”, respectively, have physical capacities that exceed one another to such a degree that having them compete together in all physical contests is not truly competitive and not “sporting”, then doesn’t…

Given the fact that society (or at least a small, but growing segment) is moving towards a social politics that does not even recognize a gender binary, why not just have everyone compete in one category—no more men’s/women’s sports; just sports.