Why? Unless she’s Jewish (which I seriously doubt) she would have been fine.

My father was 84 when I first came out to him as trans and told him that I was planning to transition. He might not have understood it, but he was immediately and entirely accepting of me for the remaining ten years of his life.

You’re actually an idiot. Yes, gay men were persecuted; about 50,000 were imprisoned, and 5,000-15,000 died in concentration camps. None were sent to gas chambers, unless they also happened to be Jews or Roma. Also, nobody died quicker then the Jews immediately sent to the gas chambers after arriving at the death…

No. The request was for proof that there are thousands of homeless LGBT youth who were kicked out for whatever reason. The point is that this tool will facilitate the same thing happening to even more kids. Are you being deliberately obtuse?

Don’t be such a smartass. Not every kid has a smart phone. When my son was was 14 or 15 years old and watching gay porn on my computer and even saving some of it (and forgetting to delete it from his history), he certainly didn’t have one. And I just pretended not to know about what he was watching. The many thousands…

I first flew to Miami with my family in the mid-1960s, when I was 9. What I remember best is the fact that when meals were served, there was a small pack of about half a dozen cigarettes on each tray, including mine. Compliments of Northeast Airlines. Smoking during the flight was unrestricted, of course. I wanted to…

Yeah, me too. I’m her age, and I’d never wear a bikini. Mostly because of all the abdominal surgeries I’ve had for Crohn’s Disease. They should have put in a zipper.

And suicides too. I seem to hear about another one every week or so, on Facebook and other places. Yes, trans people are trendy these days, and a few have become celebrities, and maybe someday that will increase societal acceptance. But meanwhile, the murders (mostly of TWOC) continue, and so does the epidemic of…

I used to buy all the paperback collections starting when I was 10 or 11 — every one of them was in print back in the 60s and 70s — and still have them.

This is the go-to current excuse for not casting trans people to play trans parts. In fact, I’ve seen plenty of trans guys who look sufficiently androgynous that they could easily play the “before transition” stage. Something they’ve actually lived through.

I had measles when I was six, and also had hallucinations because my fever was so ridiculously high. It infuriates me the way anti-vaxxers talk about measles as if it’s no big deal.

I believe it was Camilla who made that comment to Charles, not Diana.

Yes, the disabled and mentally ill had their own mass extermination centers, disguised as hospitals; they were set up even before the death camps.

Yes, I agree. It’s not a competition. So many people of all those groups died in the camps and elsewhere by execution, starvation, disease, beatings. But the deliberate extermination in gas chambers was specifically designed for Jews and Roma as part of the “final solution” for entirely liquidating them as a people.…

As I pointed out above, vocal anti-sex work advocates are almost all also virulent transphobes.

Warning to anyone going to that website: it’s a disgusting transphobic cesspool. (Of course, they deny that they’re transphobic, because they don’t believe such a thing exists — because they don’t believe that trans people exist.) I have yet to hear of a vocal anti-sex work advocate (including those who favor the…

About 5000-15,000 gay men died in concentration camps, but they weren’t among those sent to the gas chambers; that was basically just Jews and Roma.

No. Putin would be photographed bare chested hugging a live big cat!

Yes, she said she’s a Republican and considers herself conservative. Please provide a citation for her having donated major money. It doesn’t show up in the publicly available databases. At all.

That was intended to be a reply to Conrad5, not you. We’re on the same side. As you could have figured out if you’d looked at any of my other comments. So I fucked up, but not in remotely the way you think.