To me the problem is more the fact that trans women are placed in a different category from “women,” than the fact that they’re referred to as “transsexuals” rather than trans women or transsexual women. One is a direct denial of identity, while the other is really just a semantic issue.

That’s because rodents are so closely related to us — they do have hands, after all!

We already got accustomed to “you” — which was once used only as a second person plural pronoun — also being used as a second person singular pronoun, instead of “thee” and “thou.” So we can also get used to “they” being used as both the plural and singular third person pronoun. Especially since “they” has already…

There are plenty of LGBT people — like me — who don’t identify as queer, whether because they remember when it was a slur or for other reasons. But that doesn’t mean I think it still is a slur, or that there’s anything wrong with people who use it to describe themselves. What I don’t like is when people assume that…

Agreed, except for the fact that nobody, but nobody, devotes their lives to the cause of transphobia quite so obsessively as a number of actual TERFs who seem to spend 24/7 attacking trans women on the Internet. So the TERF presence is usually disproportionate to their actual numbers.

Nope, not me; whether it’s true or not, the only person for whom I’m ever willing to open my increasingly-empty wallet is my son! For him, anything. (And for my cat, of course.) Having been unemployed for quite a while now, I can’t really even afford to give much to charity anymore, other than the monthly contribution…

Oh, now you can’t even give Caitlyn the courtesy of using the proper pronouns? I think we’ve gone back and forth enough about this. And I don’t really care who you are; I was just wondering if you were someone I remembered — even though my memory for user names is awful.

So who were you at Feministe, assuming you ever commented there? I’m not celebrating her; I don’t even like her, and certainly don’t think she represents me in any way. But I also don’t like making stuff up. In fact, she was under the speed limit, even if she was arguably going too fast for what she was towing. And…

Now you’re dealing in the realm of pure speculation, with zero evidence. You can make up anything you like, but it doesn’t make it so, or entitle you to assert without qualification that the facts are X when they’re actually Y, simply because that fits your opinion of her better.

Then so are the dozens of others who’ve gotten the award who didn’t do anything comparable. Yet he didn’t return the award because of them.

This is Jezebel, after all, so if they’re not TERFs, the chances are they’re TEFs. As opposed to religious transphobes, or MRA transphobes, or dudebro transphobes, or sciencey transphobes, or any of the virtually infinite other kinds of transphobes.

How many dozens of other women have gotten this award (including this year) who have been similarly undeserving compared to this man’s wife? But he didn’t return his award for any of them.

I don’t think Jennifer Boylan — whom I know, and trust — would have gotten involved with her show if she weren’t a “nice person.” Which, according to Boylan, she is. As clueless as she may be.

The fact that she wasn’t speeding, and that there’s zero evidence she was texting, kind of detracts from your credibility.

Agree with everything you say, except that Jenner didn’t grow up the least bit wealthy. Any money she has, she made off her athletic accomplishments, and being part of the Kardashian clan.

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…