Because most transsexual women also have extremely deep (and most probably biological) body dysphoria, not just social dysphoria. Which, of course, is why the theory that “in the feminist utopia, when gender is abolished, there will be no more trans people,” is nonsense. Gender identity/sex identity does not equal…

I completely understand what you’re saying.

Thank you. I was hoping someone would mention what a disgusting transphobe she is.

The locals in Roman Britain were hardly descended from Danish and Norwegian Vikings, who were approximately 700 years in the future! And the Celts had only been in Britain for 1,000 or 1,500 years or so; Stonehenge and Avebury and so on were built by whoever was there before the Celts.

Yes: people have said consoling things to me, but I’m not sure it helps very much.

That makes a lot of sense. My mother used to tell me the story of what happened when she was about 13, in 1936, when she was still going to a regular school in Berlin (before all the Jewish children were expelled from the public schools), and a Nazi party lecturer came to the class one day to lecture on racial purity…

I’m so sorry. I’ve had multiple major abdominal surgeries resulting in thick scarring down my front , so I’ve always thought I look like I have an ass stomach — a trench down the middle with the skin bulging on either side. I wish I could learn to be as self-accepting about it as you have about your back, but I try…

So out of more than 1000 commenters, you’re the only one who decided to be nasty and dismissive to others. It’s not a competition, you asshole.

You really think that out of all the threads in the world, this is the appropriate one to ask that question?

I’m so sorry. I can really relate. My father was accepting of me, but I will never forgive his wife (I refuse to think of her as my stepmother) for not inviting me, not long after my transition, to a dinner in my father’s honor at a Democratic club he had belonged to for many years, presumably because she was afraid I…

I’m so sorry. I hope you’re able to find out your birth name someday, and something about your birth family.

Reminds me of my story above:

In my lengthy experience, it can suck at the same time you know it’s saving your life. But when you look in the mirror and see your giant moon face and red cheeks, and a few of your meaner friends in school make fun of you every time they see you, you tend to forget about the benefits.

I dearly loved my mother, who was a beautiful woman, but the worst thing she ever said to me was to look at me with great disappointment when I was about 13, and say “you’re starting to look like your father.” I did not take it as a compliment, and I don’t think it was intended as such. It was right around that time…

Ireland wasn’t the only country where things like that happened. I’ve read about very similar abuses in Continental Europe and elsewhere.

You might want to know that there’s a school of thought (which I find rather persuasive) that the Book of Job — which is one part of what’s essentially an anthology of Jewish folktales, religious literature, poetry, historical chronicles, and many other kinds of thought, composed and/or written down, and repeatedly…

The official position of the Catholic Church fully accepts evolution, and has for many years. You must be thinking about fundamentalist Protestants.

I had a lot of friends in college and in my 20s who were already lapsed Catholics and used to “dine out” on stories about sadistic grade-school nuns. The one I remember the best was from a friend who had a ruler broken over his head when he contradicted a nun — who insisted that Jesus was the only man who was ever…

Obviously, you’re not Jewish, either! (In some ways the most important aspect of Vatican II was to stop blaming us for rejecting and killing Jesus, and imposing collective guilt upon us for all time for that rejection and “murder.”)

Just as high schoolers started looking like children to me after a couple of years in college, college students looked like children to me by the time I was about 25 or so. I’ve always assumed that that’s a natural progression, and that that’s how it should be.