I’m getting this crazy feeling that maybe prettypuss isn’t going to see your way no matter how sane, sound and logical your responses are.

In almost any medical situation, once a person has been on hormones for a reasonable amount of time (1-2 years), their reactions to medications will be like their identified sex, not their sex at birth. Which sort of makes this idea that we have to have one’s “genetic” sex on their birth certificate both unrealistic…

I’ve had a dude yell over to his coworker that he had a freakshow at his till when he looked at my license during one of the only times I used my ID when my presentation didn’t match my documentation after avoiding it as much as possible. I know plenty of other trans people who’ve had similar or worse experiences. I…

Statistician here! This is really neat to think about!

Okay, I’ll try this one last time, nice and simple:

Well, since you mention it, not all trans people need to undergo SRS – many are happy to live their truth in the bodies they were born with, and others simply don’t consider surgery to be a realistic option from a financial point of view.

Nobody is using your birth certificate when you get rushed to the hospital in an emergency. They use your name and other identifying information to pull your medical records, and then they learn about your individual needs and in there you would store information about being trans or intersex or cis or whatever. And…

California is fucking enormous and various. You could absolutely find a studio for that in parts of LA County or the Central Valley. Probably up by Humboldt area too. No, you’re not going to find that deal in the bay or in any major city center here, but CA does not have a monopoly on the US housing crisis.

I was afraid to make a comment about how I’m sick of Israel’s shit b/c of that very reason. I’d need to couch it emphatically w/how I believe it has a right to exist and protect itself, as Kerry did. Which Israeli leadership has historically understood to mean that they’ll get support for any action they decide to…

Not to mention the friendship between Gaz and Dave and the honestly flawed parenting. Come sit next to me, love. We’ll trash over-hyped, sappy movies and call each other Flashy Tits.

Given the choice, any day, any time, I would choose Full Monty over Titanic.

This. Half of the Democratic Party’s problem is that its leadership came of age in Reagan’s America. As a consequence, their reflex in a fight is to get small and save what they can, because all they know is a public that won’t stand with them if they go hard for what they believe. They fight the battles that they can…

(oooh, you failed a purity test! See me after class! Write “I will not be insufficiently passionate” a thousand times!)

I just reconstructed that scene in my head, and am now paralyzed by giggles. Thanks.

And sometimes you get precisely what you deserve.

His entire brain IS a microcosm though.

Check out the last election if you want a refresher on ‘batshit insane’.

Same. I was furious when the news came out that he would be representing himself. The families of the victims have suffered enough without having to be potentially addressed by the man who murdered their loved ones. That being said, I was also curious to see how he handled it.

The other thing about Paris’ story that bugged me is that NO WAY was Paris a mother in what, her early to mid 20s? Paris would be exactly the kind of person who would focus on her career like a maniac, then have kids in her 30s and probably become a helicopter mom to overcome how shunted aside she was in her own…

The mental picture you’ve painted here is a bright light in an otherwise shitty day. +1