I was 10 years old in sleep-away camp, and was dumb enough to volunteer, as the smallest kid in the bunk, to let one of the counselors swing me around and around in the air inside the cabin, holding me not by the hands but by the ankles. After 4 or 5 rotations, the counselor let go — just like an Olympic hammer throw,…

It’s a very common sentiment among trans women, and I share it. But you do what you can.

Jan Morris? I feel the same way about her. I remember seeing her as a child, on the Dick Cavett show in the 1970s. It was that interview that made me realize that there was such a thing as a trans woman who liked women — although the loud laughter from the audience at that concept upset me for years and made me even…

Anyone who might be inclined to believe your flagrant misrepresentations of the relevant research should read this, which nicely summarizes the actual research: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/myths-about-transition-regrets_b_6160626.html?utm_content=buffer6e4f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&u…

In order for her to be correct that she was “XX” and not “really” transsexual but intersex, her children could not have been hers — which of course is what she claimed. I wonder how her wife felt about that, and if she confirmed it. I can’t help being skeptical; there have been plenty of trans women who’ve falsely…

Utter nonsense, and a lie. The higher suicide rates shown in the Swedish study are exclusively applicable to those transitioning before 1989.

Back then, transgender people were told that the only way to transition was to forget that your family ever existed, and cut off contact with them, both to avoid being “outed” and to spare them the shame of having a transgender relative.  A horrifyingly noxious practice that fortunately ended a long time ago.

Ask the trans women in Pose what they think of Ryan Murphy. Oh, right, you don’t have to — just read any one of the many interviews they’ve given about trans issues.

IVAN Doe?  Nice.

If you really think I was trolling rather than 1969 Dodge Charger Guy — given that I was simply responding to his pathetic transphobia — then I suggest that you and he just crawl back in your sewer together. But if your responded to the wrong comment, please be more careful next time.  Someone might get an inaccurate…

Among the people I’ve told that I’m trans, I would say that quite a few assert that they’ve never met another trans person before me.

You must be illiterate if you think that’s what she meant.  No surprise.

They’ve done lots of interviews in which they discuss trans issues.  Especially Indya Moore and M.J. Rodriguez.  So something sounds wrong to me too.

It doesn’t make sense to me, because the trans actors in Pose have been all over the media doing interviews in which they discuss trans issues.  So something must be lost in translation.

She must have; otherwise I wouldn’t know that she’s trans. I have no knowledge of her other than what she’s written.

Love the article, and love the fact that Jezebel has finally added someone like “us” to its roster of regular writers. I envy your willingness to try different things; I still wear only the one shade of lipstick someone told me looked OK on me about 15 years ago, before I transitioned!

I agree with you in general, but white gay boys suffer from conversion therapy as much or more than anyone else, and the fact that they’re white doesn’t make their stories inherently less worthy of being told. (It would be preferable, however, if it were written and directed by someone gay, and if the actor himself…

So we can see Roger Ailes’s “raw hamburger meat”-looking dick portrayed?

Obviously Babar made a strong impression on me as a small child, because I still vividly remember my mother reading the book to me when I was 3 — a very long time ago! — and being so traumatized by the death of Babar’s mother that I couldn’t go on with it.   I even remember the illustrations.  So I never read it to my…

The conversation about trans women has already been had — it’s been going on for decades — and rules have been established, based on the many studies showing that after a certain period of time on hormones trans women have NO physical advantage, and, in fact, are at a disadvantage in some cases because of insufficient…