This girl has been living as a girl for years and year, took puberty suppressing drugs, and is now on hormones. I very much doubt that she remotely resembles a “high school boy.” Plus, when has this scenario you hypothesize ever happened?

I know that stereotypically everyone in prison says they’re innocent, but some actually are. And reading the New York Magazine article that came out last year, I’m not saying I believe her, but it’s at least possible. (Especially her point that she was always a “gay” kid and wasn’t and couldn’t ever have been with a…

No, because he isn’t white. Many Latinos are, and are 100% European. Like my cousins. Like Pope Francis. Like millions of other Latinos. You’ve seriously never met Latinos who are white? Of course they have white privilege, both in Latin America and here. What the hell does Barack Obama have to do with any of this? In…

How did you feel about CeCe MacDonald’s conviction and subsequent treatment, including being placed in a men’s prison? She is a black trans woman who killed a white man (a white supremacist thug), in self-defense — which the prosecutor ignored. Was her treatment OK with you?

Exactly. Nobody’s saying she should go free. Even if she’s guilty, people in prison shouldn’t be tortured by being held in solitary for 20 years and not being given medical treatment.

All my cousins in Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, Uraguay, and Argentina whose grandparents or great-grandparents happened to go South upon crossing the Atlantic. Pope Francis. 95% of the people in Argentina.

What makes you think she’s white?

Because EVERYONE in prison, regardless of their guilt or innocence or the nature of their offense, deserves to be treated fairly and have their medical needs met. And because prolonged solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment — especially when it’s ostensibly to protect the prisoner from other prisoners,…

Except it’s a fallacy to argue that someone assigned male at birth who’s always identified as female has ever really been in a position to take advantage of the male privilege “offered” to them, or that male socialization affects them in remotely the same way as it does someone who has no gender identity issues…

You have to understand that all 23andMe can tell you is that you belong to certain genetic haplogroups, etc., that are most commonly found among those ethnicities. It absolutely cannot tell you that you actually have those ethnicities among your ancestors, since there’s almost never a 100% correspondence.

Also art history. My son is one of the few male grad students in that field he knows of.

How about Japan at certain times in its history?

Thank you. Any trans woman who claimed that would be vilified. The idea that the world takes it easy on trans women, and doesn’t pounce at any hint of “deception,” is absurd.

Here’s a recent video of a round-table discussion among scientists, giving a very good summary of the state of scientific research concerning trans people and gender identity. (It’s difficult for me to explain to non-trans people, but an analogy that sometimes works is for me to say that I view my gender identity and…

My mother was in London from the ages of 15 to 20, from the end of 1938 to the end of 1943 (as a Kindertransport refugee), and used to tell me how generally popular the royal family was for the specific reason that they stayed in London and didn’t run away to Canada. Also, because the King “tried so hard” to fulfill…

Have you ever noticed how long and sharp her upper incisors and canine teeth are?

Fiction. See my comment above. Plus Cruise was already acting, and nobody with acting ambitions was out back in 1980.

Yeah, bullshit. My son went to that high school, and nobody but nobody was out and proud at that school even when my son was there (except for him), let alone in Tom Cruise’s day almost 30 years earlier.

If you’re a straight woman, it’s your business if you don’t want to date a straight trans guy, but it really has nothing whatsoever to do with gay rights. And there’s nothing “ridic” about trans guys who date women.

I like that! In case anyone’s wondering, Rambam is an acronym for Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known as Moses Maimonides, the medieval Jewish philosopher, theologian and physician from Spain, who also later lived in Egypt.