I don’t think “eventually” is a fair characterization of three weeks from proposal to implementation.

As for the anti-Semitism, this is an excerpt from a letter my mother, then age 19, wrote on March 22, 1943 to her parents (who had finally escaped from Berlin and emigrated to the USA via Lisbon in June 1941). By then,…

Yes, but the British government did have to approve the program, and did so incredibly quickly: the first Kindertransport of 200 Jewish children (including my mother, who was 15) arrived at Harwich on Dec. 2, 1938, only three weeks after Kristallnacht. By contrast, the USA did nothing. Look up the proposed…

That was over a lengthy period, and involved rejecting far more Jewish refugees than they took. They never even filled the (tiny) annual quotas set for the different countries from which Jewish refugees were applying. Tens of thousands died because of it, never mind the St. Louis.  Plus the Wagner-Rogers bill, which…

Nobody -- not Hallquist, not anyone -- ever remotely suggested that being trans was itself a reason to vote for her.  

Definitely. Homophobia — entwined with the thrill of forbidden fruit — have a great deal to do with it. Every trans woman I’ve known who’s attracted to men has been amazed by the number of straight men who, regardless of any public expressions of transphobia, are secretly attracted to trans women.  

His people have told him that he can ban all abortions with an executive order.

Thank you!

I’m not one of the most frequent posters by any means, but I’ve been around for years myself, and I’ve rarely had a problem with anyone other than TERFs and Trump supporters and Jew-haters!

Notorious troll who’s been around for years.  Usually there’s some hidden reference to tomatoes in his message or in whatever user name he’s using.  Always mysteriously approved.

New Zealand and Australia are 2,500 miles apart. You really think you can see a volcanic eruption from 2,500 miles away?  If there were a volcano in Phoenix and it erupted, could you see it from New York City?

You know what? That’s such an asshole comment. I’m quite a bit younger than Caitlyn Jenner, but I’m still a baby boomer who happens to be a trans woman — as well as a lifelong New York Jewish Democrat — and pretty much every LGBT baby boomer I know who fits into any of those categories hates Trump and his minions as…

I’ve seen it a lot too, and there isn’t any study that’s a source for it. I’m pretty sure someone took the average age of black trans women who’ve been reported to have been murdered or otherwise died over a period of time, and interpreted that to mean that that’s the average life expectancy of black trans women. It’s …

Thanks so much.  The same to you.

I’m pretty sure that while it was being broadcast, the AV Club and/or Jezebel did recap every episode.

Jump off the Empire State Building?  Go ahead.  Please!

“Beat up,” or shoved to the ground, possibly accidentally? And how do we know this girl really was one of the ones who supposedly did that, or even the same one who’d been told to leave? White cops aren’t great at distinguishing one black kid from another, after all.  Plus, you call that a kick?  It didn’t get…

Right now it’s only about Title IX (schools, basically). Next it’ll be Title VII (employment), and then everything else, including passports, Social Security records, and so on. And, of course, legal challenges will ultimately wind up in our wonderful new Supreme Court.

Thank you, although I don’t think this is anything like the Reimer case, which was specifically about gender & sex & theories of nature vs. nurture. Dr. Archibald just was a garden-variety disgusting pedophile, and the fact that at least one of his victims — me — happened to be trans was really just a coincidence. One…

Also, I’ve thought about sending the story to the Jezebel inbox and explaining that I have a connection to it.  But I’m not really prepared right now to go through my whole story and its details all over again to another journalist — it takes a lot out of me — and it wouldn’t make much sense to contact Jezebel unless…

Not all religions.  It’s a Christian thing.