As I’ve written before, one of the first questions my then-14 year old son had for me back in 2004, when I told him about my plans to transition the following year, was “is it OK if I still call you Dad?” And I said, of course it is. It was the least I could do to provide him a little bit of continuity, and reassure…

I don’t think there’s ever been a Republican in my family at any time since my father’s grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe to live in a Lower East Side Tenement in July 1888. My father (who died last year at 94, and voted for the Democrat in 18 straight Presidential elections) was 85 when I transitioned a…

I don’t know, but I’ll ask him if he remembers. For all I know, it was actually one of the pigeons that used to sit all day on the air conditioning units outside our windows!

Wasn’t she the one who first found him after that awful car accident?

And what’s your source for suggesting she assaulted him? You made it up, didn’t you? And please provide a specific case evidencing your general claim that trans sex workers might rape their customers. I think you made that up, too.

Well, I think my post went right over your head. “Advertising as a woman” is not false advertising. It’s 2015. Trans women are women. If their having a “pussy” is a requirement — or a material fact — for someone hiring them as a female sex worker, that should be made clear in advance. And in any event, from what I’ve…

OK, I get it. You’re a transphobe AND an MRA. Fuck you, troll. And he didn’t claim she “raped” or assaulted him; it’s entirely in your pornographic imagination.

How many sex workers rape their customers, that you’ve ever heard of? Never mind when the sex worker is a Filipina trans woman and the customer is a Marine!

I don’t think any such assumption is justifiable, and think it’s infinitely more likely that if there was no discussion it was because either the guy knew damn well she was transgender and had her original anatomy, or she rightfully assumed he knew. Because he was at a club known for transgender sex workers, and the…

You mean, ask for his money back? Or get damages for the injury to his sad, fragile masculinity?

Why do you assume this woman lied.

A trans woman saying she’s a woman is not being deceptive, and is not a “she (he).” I pity any trans woman whom you represent. Please don’t do it again; you’re not fit.

Then it’s up to you to let people know ahead of time what information you consider basic to disclose.

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…