She hasn’t said she’s against it. She said she used to be, but now wouldn’t “stand in anyone’s way.”

In my experience, it’s not par for the course at all. Internalized transphobia, however, is (not surprisingly) almost universal, and can be very difficult to overcome.

Unfortunately, there are cis women who believe that too. I assume that you don’t extrapolate from one person who claims to be a trans woman who holds such views to some kind of generalization about all trans women.

But calling trans-exclusionary radical feminists TERFs is a slur! You must be one of those “fun feminists”!

Baloney. I don’t believe it.

Nah. Trans women win!

Perhaps I should emphasize that I’m not bitter; I’m resigned. I was well aware when I began my transition 15 years ago what it would mean.

Sounds like the experience of many trans women I know or have heard of. There are lots of men who are interested, but very few willing to admit it in public.

Once upon a time, long ago, I lived for many years as a 5’ 2”, 115-120 pound man. Or tried to, anyway. And it’s true that nobody ever used “short” as an adjective to describe a man with the intention of conveying something positive (whereas “tall” is almost universally meant as positive), and that there are probably…

I’m not talking about “legal” sacredness, and neither was the article. The legal status of consecration is not required to make a location sacred in in a colloquial sense, or to make the cited actions inappropriate. Nobody’s talking about tax status or the ability to perform valid baptisms. You’re missing the point of…

You really are an idiot, aren’t you. Gaza = Auschwitz now? Sure. Actually, more Muslims have been killed in Syria just in the last year or so than in all the conflicts with Israel since 1948. So, I guess not. And I think you need to do quite a bit more reading on the idea of sacred space in Judaism. It isn’t as narrow…

Utter nonsense. Of course Auschwitz is a sacred space, by any definition. It’s the largest Jewish cemetery in the world.

Fucking TERF slimeball.

How do you know? How many “surgically-created” vaginas have you inspected? (FYI, they’re real.)

Again: non-disclosure of an aspect of your history (being trans, having been divorced, being part African-American) is very different from affirmatively lying about your identity and your body. I do have a vagina. If someone sees me as a woman (which I am) and finds me attractive and has sex with me, my history is…

As I said above, affirmatively lying about being a man and having a penis is very different from a woman with a vagina who happens to have a trans history not disclosing that history before having sex. There’s no misrepresentation of who she is — because she is a woman — and there’s no misrepresentation of her bodily…

This isn’t about nondisclosure of someone’s trans status; it’s about affirmative misrepresentation — a lie. To conflate this with transphobia is itself transphobic.

The contention I was responding to specifically referred to “70 years ago.” 1956 was 59 years ago. As I should know, considering that my sister lives in Hungary and my late brother-in-law (not Jewish) was a refugee in 1956, before moving back in the 1980s. What are you, 12?

Yes, nitwit. The vast majority of refugees from Hungary in 1945, apart from the few surviving Jews, were ethnic Germans expelled from Hungary.

Not to mention that Hungary gave up its Jews to the Nazis when a little bit of reluctance might have saved a great many lives — at least half a million were murdered in the last year of the War, as I recall.