Exactly. A lot of the men who murder trans women and then claim “trans panic” actually knew perfectly well ahead of time, but were embarrassed or felt humiliated afterwards.

Thank you. If you’re not interested in trans women, I think it’s up to you to let people know ahead of time. The same way you should tell people ahead of time “you’d better let me know if you’re a Jew or part black or not a virgin or were married before, because if you don’t tell me and I find out later, I’ll have to…

Nonsense. I’m a mid-Boomer whose son was born in 1990, I knew MANY parents of young children back then who insisted (much to my astonishment) that they would never allow anyone other than themselves (and perhaps their parents) to be with their child until the child was at least several years old. It never ceases to…

Sadly, he pretty much gave up drawing a few years after this. There were too many other kids he knew who, he felt, were so much more talented than he was. And as much as I mocked the diagnosis, he actually does have some fine motor issues (which I think he probably got from me), which made it more difficult for him to…

If all or most of what’s described in this article made it into the final film, this movie sounds especially creepy and fetishistic in its focus not only on Lili’s physical transition, but on the strictly external, eroticized aspects of it, which sound a lot like a forced-feminization fantasy (as portrayed by cis…

A comment I posted on another thread about this movie:

Remarkable how you happen to choose this one movie, with a relatively small budget — out of all the movies and TV shows made every year, never mind the money spent on other forms of mass entertainment — as contributing to world hunger by omission. And if you don’t like reading about trans issues (making up a tiny bit…

And this is something he drew when he was 9, just to show how a few years makes a big difference — even for someone like my son, who was diagnosed with “fine motor delay” issues because he didn’t hold his pencil the right way and had trouble learning how to tie his shoes.

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I agree that it’s unlikely that the first picture was drawn by a five-year old without any help. This is something my son (who was reasonably “artistic” as a child and even won a prize for a painting he did later on in grade school) drew in kindergarten when he was five — it was supposed to represent Halloween, at…

He’s only 57?

I was quite close to my former mother-in-law, and she always treated me as well as she could have if I were her child. But I’ve seen or talked to her only once in the 15 years since my marriage ended, when my son graduated from high school. It’s a very strange feeling to be part of someone’s family, and then not…

Interesting, because my understanding is that Mussolini tried to suppress the Sicilian Mafia, which is why so many of them (and their U.S. cousins) cooperated with the U.S. military during the invasion of Sicily.

OK, I misunderstood where you were coming from, having seen way too many cis people say to trans women (usually in gloating fashion), you may be a woman, but you’re still male!!! Ha ha ha!!!

If all or most of what’s described in this article made it into the final film, this movie sounds especially creepy and fetishistic in its focus not only on Lili’s physical transition, but on the strictly external, eroticized aspects of it, which sound a lot like a forced-feminization fantasy (as portrayed by cis…

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I don’t think it’s close; even if I were young enough to look forward to the possibility in another 20 years, I don’t think I’d benefit. After all, the non-trans women who’ve had these transplants, from my understanding, all have ovaries, so the child they’d be bearing would be genetically their own — which is kind of…

Taking this kind of role, no matter how sincere Redmayne may have been, undoubtedly amounts to award-baiting. This is a list I came up with a while back of cis actors who’ve been nominated for and/or won acting awards (not only Oscars) for playing trans people:

Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Jared Leto (Dallas Buyer’s…

Some would have a problem, but I’ve seen enough trans actors say that it wouldn’t be. In any event, this is pretty much a straw trans woman — and gets raised so often as a justification that it can amount to concern trolling — given that most of the time, trans actors don’t even have the opportunity to make that…

Not true. Sex is based on many factors other than chromosomes, both legally and in common parlance (even apart from the existence of intersex conditions), as well as scientifically. See, e.g., the law review article entitled GENDER IDENTITY DEFINES SEX: UPDATING THE LAW TO REFLECT MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE IS KEY TO…