A point of order: trans women pre-transition may live, to a greater or lesser extent, as male, but it’s quite a reach to say that they identify that way.

I like Harry Potter more than most people and I used to want to attend a boarding school with horses, but I’ve known for a long time that I would be afraid to send my own child to boarding school. I know 14 year old me wouldn’t have fared well despite my desire to live away from home. I wasn’t mature enough to…

This kind of thing is just unenforceable. So you see a tall woman with a strong jaw—you are supposed to ask for her birth certificate or ask her to show her genitals so she can use the bathroom? How about a small man with dainty hands? How about a butch lesbian with a bound chest? Who is supposed to be enforcing this…

Is there nothing that the GOP isn’t scared of? I’m surprised that these bills don’t allow some provision to “stand your ground” and shoot someone who you think is dumping out in the “wrong” place.

If I woke up and nobody was spending time, effort, and money worrying about what bathroom somebody takes a whiz in, it would be a good day.

“Allowing trans people to pee is as unconstitutional as Lincoln’s war against states rights.” - North Carolina GOP

The Wire doesn’t feel like a show, it feels so real and to think some of the people on the show didn’t have any acting experience prior, damn. Omar is my fave. I really love The Sopranos though, I agree there wasn’t many females I could relate to... but Edie Falco was a joy to watch.

Thanks for linking those pieces - I think about this issue a lot, and I think that the tendency for each side to “monolith” the other - “You experienced male privilege!” versus “You’re just a TERF!” I guess - makes it difficult to discuss something that I think needs to be acknowledged for this particular aspect of…

I turned it off shortly after she came onstage. I can’t imagine how hard those past months must have been for her. But I admire her for doing this. I can’t even think about my mom and grandmother, whom I’m very very close with passing away without crying, not to mention within a matter of days. She’s stronger than…

I’m still so cross that she’s gone. There was so much still left in her. The tribute is beautiful and I’m glad it wasn’t a whole somber, earnest, affair. There was sex jokes and her sticking her tongue down a fan’s throats and it was perfect. For me, I just burst when they showed the little girls dressed up as Leia.…

I heard she was going to get us involved in all sorts of wars because he’s so hawkish.

Who ever starts WWIII... The next war will be fought with sticks and stones. And odds are, you’re not going recognize the people fighting it nor will they remember anything about us. All that will remain is a couple locations where there exists a ragged bundle of bleached out tatters on a flagpole next to an equally…

Holy crap, I used to dream about nuclear war, too. 80s child here...every air raid siren made you pause and check the skies, just in case.

I think it’s a little more complicated than that. Trans women are excluded from male privilege in a lot of ways even before they’re out/transitioned.

First of all, you are an asshole, regardless of genitals. I may not agree with Rebel Girl about a lot, but if she says she’s a woman, she’s a woman. GTFO with that bullshit right now.

thats true. and while of course its way less harmful long term than FGM, piercing baby’s ears is also a little sketchy for me. Its not that i necessarily want to outlaw it or something but i when i see it...i don’t like it.

In terms of solidarity I think it’s more important to call out someone who’s trying to turn the chip on her shoulder into an ideological battle, because this is something that ultimately affects us all since plenty of cis feminists feel fine stereotyping us all based on the behavior of one person.

In history classes far into the future, the question: what was the tipping point that started WWIII? will be easily answered on final exams, much unlike the convoluted response for say, WWI, it will be a simple, one word answer: Twitter.

A lot of this could have been avoided if your first comment had been a rep,y to whoever said circumcision is NBD. As I think stans, it looks like you read the article and decided to make it about yourself.

Literally nobody here is disagreeing with the point that circumcising babies’ penises is problematic at best, since babies are incapable of giving consent. What people are disagreeing with is your insistence that there is no difference between circumcising a penis and “FGM,” a term that includes clitoridectomy, not…