It’s not limited to that, but could potentially provide cover for healthcare workers to refuse to treat trans people at all.

I had severe complications after my gender confirmation surgery (albeit not in that part of my body) and was taken from the clinic to the ER of the local hospital in Montreal. Where I was told “we don’t know how to treat people like you,” and they refused to admit me, and kept me in the emergency room for eight days…

If you don’t think that there are plenty of atheists who despise trans people and/or hold them in contempt, you’re very wrong.

I was seriously ill and hospitalized for more than a week on an emergency basis in late November and early December. The entire time I was in the hospital (Columbia Presbyterian, up near where I live), I didn’t tell a single, solitary person about my trans history, and just left all of it out (including the surgery)…

68-year old Hillary or however old she is?

Right. All the people who brutally murder trans women (especially trans women of color) by bashing their heads in or stabbing them a hundred times, and then burning their bodies. Free them all!

There’s also the white privilege aspect. Can you imagine a black trans woman who had been in prison ever believing in a million years — or persuading anyone else to believe — that she was qualified or entitled to begin a career in politics by starting at the top in the U.S. Senate?

I believe both. Maybe Mia was a physically abusive monster of a parent. But that has no relevance whatsoever to the issue of whether Woody Allen sexually molested his daughter. The wrongdoing of one doesn’t imply the innocence of the other. There are only two people who know what happened between Dylan and her father.…

Italian/Sicilian people are people of color now? Are white people limited to Scandinavians and other Northern Europeans all of a sudden?

I picked up my EU (German) passport yesterday, and I’m looking forward to using it for the first time next month when I go to Germany next month with my son for the Stolpersteine ceremony in the small village in the Schwarzwald where my mother’s family lived for more than 200 years.

I’ve never been out of the greys (grays?) — even though I’ve been commenting for years, and certainly get my share of “likes” and responses even from the greys. I’ve never understood how so many of these guys get ungreyed so quickly.

I forget his name, but I haven’t seen him comment in a very long time.

Agreed.

Alternatively, second wave is racist, transphobic white feminists.

Thanks. I got used to it, eventually. I have friends, and other things I enjoy doing. I never get bored by myself — there’s always something to read or think about. My new job keeps me very busy, and makes me feel like I’m finally doing something worthwhile with my life, litigating for other trans people’s rights. And…

Canned response # 37 from the TERF “how to bait people into getting angry ” handbook. Yawn. As if you would know reasoned argument if it bit you. I’m hardly upset. I simply gave you the response that you deserved. As much as any bigot, whether homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, or transphobic. There isn’t a dime’s…

You don’t know that. People are complicated. Just because he married her doesn’t mean there wasn’t part of him that still despised her for being trans. Plenty of racists enter into interracial marriages.

I don’t even bother trying anymore, and haven’t for more than 10 years.

Fuck you. You don’t deserve a more polite response.

There have been rumors for years that he raped a young actress in a hotel room in the 1940s/1950s.