You know she was only one of many winners, right? People are acting like she was the only one named.

There are already plenty of trans-specific organizations doing work specifically on trans issues (NCTE, TLDEF, the Transgender Law Center, and others), as well as LGBT organizations that include trans people in the work they do (like GLAAD, Lambda Legal, etc.). The very fact that there aren’t that many trans people…

Ok, I apologize. I didn’t realize the significance of the comma in your last sentence. In other words, I mistook “There are a very few, who deserve all the same rights of other women,” for “There are a very few who deserve all the same rights of other women.” Similarly, I mistook your “very few” comment as arguing…

Threads like this — and years of listening to women friends talk about their marriages and relationships — make ever being in a relationship with a man unimaginable to me. Even if I found men more attractive than I generally do, I just couldn’t deal with catering to someone that way for very long. I’d rather be alone…

Conversely, when my son was a baby and small child, before my transition, I used to get tons of compliments for how “good” and loving I was with him. And used to get compliments from friends about what an empathetic listener I was. I have little doubt that I would have gotten few, if any of those compliments had I…

I think you don’t know very much about issues of extreme poverty, homelessness, immigrant detention, healthcare discrimination, employment discrimination, pay discrimination, rape and other sexual violence, etc., among trans women (especially trans women of color) if you think only a “very few” are affected by them.…

I absolutely think it does. I have also known of men who see their wives/partners that way (especially if there are children in the picture) to the extent that an incest taboo develops and they’re no longer interested in them sexually. Which they then use as an excuse for cheating.

Exactly. I’ve never understood why being angry seemingly doesn’t count as showing emotion. Because most of the men I’ve known are very good at showing that kind of emotion.

I have always felt sorry for fathers who don’t have that kind of intimate emotional connection with their children. My father and I never really had it. And I can’t imagine not having it with my son — just as much now that he’s 25, as when he was a child. (The fact that I happen to be his biological father has never…

Because saying “Trans folks are far less willing to put themselves on the line” constitutes valuing other people’s experience and insight? You’re either an idiot or malicious.

Right, people should read what was being said about Kennedy (or any queen who isn’t white), vs. the adulation of Pearl and Violet.

“access to affordable health care, access to childcare, equal pay, etc. Then, on top of that, there are sizable minorities facing specific problems (single mothers, poverty rates among African American women, detention of immigrant mothers, etc).” Please don’t forget that there are many trans people who face every one…

I always think it’s hilarious when people argue that “TERF is a slur.” Exactly what part of “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” is a slur or inaccurate? Oh, you’re not a “radical” feminist? Fine, then you’re a TEF!

A lot of non-trans women hold noxious views about feminism and women’s “place” in general, but somehow nobody ever argues that holding those views makes them not really women. Whereas anytime someone finds a trans women who says stupid things about gender, it’s used to ascribe “collective guilt” to all trans women,…

But if the result of that non-belief is to call trans women “men” and “he” and campaign against their being allowed in women’s bathrooms, guess what — that does make you transphobic. This is not an academic, theoretical discussion, as much as you might want to pretend it is, and as much as you might dismiss the…

Right, crossing the gender line just reifies and reinforces the gender binary. What complete nonsense and double-talk. In case you hadn’t noticed, in order to get where they’re going, even if it’s from one end of the “binary” to another, most trans people have to go through a public transition. They can’t disappear on…

Really? That’s ridiculous. Sylvia is the worst possible person to say that about, given that her own writings make clear that she identified as a trans woman.

That’s hyperbole. She said she didn’t used to support same-sex marriage, but does now. To be honest, I don’t think any cis gay or lesbian person has much standing to criticize trans people for being insufficiently supportive, given how much active hostility — rather than mere non-support — trans people have received…

I actually gave you too much credit. In fact, the term “increase” is never used; both statements use “increased risk” — rather than referring to an increase in raw numbers — so they do have to mean the same thing:

For approximately the fifth time, “increase” = “increased risk” for purposes of the article. They have the same meaning.