As in, cover for all the vile things she’s said about trans people. When they’re kids, I guess they’re cute. When they grow up, they’re anti-feminist monsters!

You happen to be wrong. Of course “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment.

I’m so very sorry.

Did it occur to you that nobody else was acknowledging that there were Jewish students killed? That people were putting up crosses in their memory? If a Jewish publication won’t draw attention to them, who else will?

It doesn’t surprise me one bit that you would be the one to effectively equate trans men with women, and trans women with men. I don’t know one single trans man who would remotely appreciate your “standing up for them” in this way. With friends like you . . . .

Then why hasn’t there been a sea of these kinds of incidents already in the decades that protective law have existed? Where’s the evidence that anyone has taken advantage of such a law to “invade” a women’s shelter? And do you know what the rape and murder stats are for young trans women on the streets? Not to mention…

In any event, most of those “reports” have nothing to do with bathrooms or trans women, as I recall from looking at a lot of them.

Here’s the problem — something happens once in all these years, and all the actual trans women have to suffer, and be deprived of their right to use the goddamn bathroom, because of it? Should gay men be banned from men’s rooms because there have been a tiny number of cases in which they’ve assaulted other men?

Never, ever. It’s a bullshit scare story cynically designed to whip up hysteria and bigotry against trans people.

Extrapolated or exaggerated?

No, because it’s a myth and a lie that non-trans men will claim they’re women in order to be admitted to a woman’s shelter, woman’s bathroom, or other women’s space — and it’s even more of a lie that they’ll make that claim without even bothering to present as women. It’s all bullshit. Despite all the years (decades…

I’d love to know how they think they know automatically just from looking at everyone they see — wearing clothing — what genitals they have.

Plus, it’s a phony argument anyway. They’d still want to exclude trans people whose genitals are the same as cis people of the same gender.

That’s for chronic pain. Not for post-surgical pain. (Oral surgery = surgery.) There’s a difference.

But why is it OK, dude, if you’d rather not be in pain? Do you think pain is good for you? We should all tough it out? Don’t forget that only a tiny, tiny percentage of people who are prescribed opioids (2%?) develop a problem. Should the 98% suffer because of the risks to the 2%? I’ve been given morphine, demerol,…

Have you ever had 2 or 3 impacted wisdom teeth removed at the same time? At least for a while, it can be every bit as painful afterwards as major abdominal surgery.

So, guilt by relationship?

It’s a different Kushner. Brothers do have political differences, you know, and this one has always been a Democrat.

I don’t think anyone does. It simply irritates me when cis people lecture trans people. About just about anything. Especially cis people who’ve never demonstrated the slightest interest in or knowledge of trans issues.

That’s a real stretch, I think. Nobody voted for Trump because Caitlyn Jenner said it was OK!

Do you really think for a minute that anyone voted for Trump because Caitlyn Jenner supported him? Come on.