Paul never claims to have met Jesus, and says little or nothing about his life.

Josephus’s mentions of Jesus are blatant Christian forgeries interpolated years later.

Thanks. It’s always good to know that I’m not completely on my own here when it comes to this sort of thing.

You’re being an embarrassing fool. You don’t get a vote on whether or not I’m a woman. I’ve never had to take “no” from a woman about who I am because every woman I know accepts me as one, and that’s been true since I transitioned many years ago. The idea that I would care about the opinion on the subject of some…

I have no problem with your position, as long as you would respond the same way to someone expressing any other kind of bigotry. My concern is that many people seem far more willing to tolerate bigoted transphobic rhetoric (even if they disagree with it), than they are willing to tolerate racist, homophobic,…

I’m supposed to remember your name? I have no idea who you are. You all sound pretty much exactly alike.

How noble of you. No skin off your nose, of course, if somebody comes here and spouts stereotyped transphobic nonsense.

Tilda Swinton signed that letter too (it was a lot more than a few years ago), and everyone still worships her because she’s so cool. Natalie Portman? She’s excommunicated forever.

How about trying to meet some trans women who’ve actually been living as women for years and years. I assure you that any fantasies they may have had at the outset disappeared a long time ago. Please don’t generalize from the handful of trans women you may have met. Also: there are, unfortunately, more than a few…

Feminist Current is a truly vile transphobic cesspool.

Yes, this place is such a big mess, because people here are actually intelligent and empathetic enough to understand that trans women are women, and reject the kind of horrifyingly bigotry that passes for ordinary discourse at Feminist Current. What you call trans misogyny is nothing but trans women being who they are…

In my case, my intestines reacted badly to the surgery (or the anesthesia) for some reason — I have Crohn’s Disease — and I had a partial intestinal obstruction. Nothing to do with being trans! But way too many healthcare personnel seem to think we’re not really human, and our bodies are somehow fundamentally…

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.…