Would you say the same if she played a black person or a Native American?

And the person she’s playing was a tall, burly trans guy. She’s about 5' 3". So she doesn’t even work for physical resemblance, never mind being the wrong gender. I suppose you’d be OK with casting her as Harriet Tubman for the reasons you state?

Of course, the focus on “penis-havers” vs. “vagina-havers” is a red herring. These people are equally hateful towards trans women who have vaginas. If you ever had a penis, you’re tainted forever — it’s an original, ineradicable sin. Plus, a trans woman’s vagina isn’t a real vagina anyway: it’s an “unhealed surgical…

Neither I nor any other trans woman I know claims that my experiences are identical to those of cis women, or that I arrived where I am now by the same path that cis women did. It’s not bigotry to acknowledge the existence of those differences. What’s bigotry is to focus only on the differences to the exclusion of the…

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Bullshit.  The fact that a handful of people apply the term inaccurately doesn’t make it a slur.

The fundamental problem with TERF rhetoric (like that of Eartha Kittenheels in this thread) is that it’s entirely circular. It assumes that trans women are men. Once you assume that, everything they say sounds entirely logical. And of course any non-trans person who challenges the assumption is either a victim of…

I’ve repeatedly complained to Facebook about posts denying the Holocaust — while simultaneously posting cartoons of Jews in gas chambers. (Because the Holocaust didn’t happen, but if it did we deserved it.)  And I’ve been told every time that Holocaust denial does not violate Facebook’s community standards.

Yes. Not someone actually from Africa, but someone dark-skinned. I’m pretty sure that was because nobody had white skin that long ago — it didn’t even appear until much more recently.

Your P.S. is incorrect. A U.S. citizen can absolutely become a naturalized citizen of another country without losing their U.S. citizenship, as long as the other country permits dual citizenship. I’ve done it, and so have many thousands of others. See https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-consid…

8, I think?

Exactly. That’s also what I think of when I think of RuPaul in the 1980s and 1990s. “Clubs,” but not balls, not houses. More Michael Musto and Amanda Lepore and the Village Voice than Paris is Burning.

Just because it came to a screeching halt in terms of NY Times and other mainstream media coverage doesn’t mean it came to a halt in reality. From people I’ve talked to who were there, it continued throughout. The media attention moved to the downtown scene — to places like the Pyramid Club, which was around…

I wasn’t there, so I don’t know who’s telling the truth. Here’s my source: https://twitter.com/ThemeFromShaft/status/1012510126970990593

Yeah, sure.  They flew away all the way to a farm upstate.

According to what people who were there said, Aquaria did NOT fall. Somebody made that up.

Plastic surgery? I don’t think pumping qualifies, exactly! Good episode. Hard to watch at times: my own partner not wanting me to have any kind of genital surgery was a major reason we broke up more than a decade ago.. I haven’t been in a relationship since.

Seeking asylum is not illegal, you worthless fucking moron.

My religious beliefs preclude providing service to fascists and their enablers.  

Being a Republican is not a protected category.