Yes, yes. Trans kids are paedos (???) because they want to, horror of horrors, change or pee in peace and not be harassed or even assaulted (sexually or physically) for it. Hey, since you’ve already brought up one of society’s big boogeymen in order to fearmonger, how about calling them terrorists too? Clearly the…

Don’t use “trannies”, it’s an offensive slur. Also, as an intersexed woman, I’m very happy to ally myself with trans people because both of us experience a lot of the same medical problems and a lot of the same bullshit bigotry.

I’m so glad intersexed people like myself exist to throw a spanner or five into the works of your exceedingly flawed hypothesis. Really, right now I’m extremely happy I exist purely because my very existence proves you have no idea what you’re talking about. XY chromosomes with a mutated X, ambiguous body, ambiguous…

Many intersexed people are misassigned at birth, often have a body that (while somewhat ambiguous) doesn’t match our gender identity, and we end up having to go through pretty much the same medical process a trans person does. Similarly, some of us will want to have surgery to correct what to us may be intolerably…

But if you were a daughter of a young trans woman, surely you wouldn’t find it appropriate for her to be forced to share a bathroom with young men who may sexually and/or physically assault her. Even murder her, simply for being who she is.

No they aren’t. And don’t be bigoted towards the developmentally disabled.

Everyone thinks I’m talking about Pratchett, but interestingly, the whole world on an elephant on a turtle comes from Hindu mythology originally... although obviously I did think of Pratchett a little :) However, I was mostly referencing a rather old anecdote... Here’s Stephen Hawking’s telling from A Brief History of…

I believe Scalia was murdered by shape shifting reptilian aliens, in order to prevent him from revealing that not only were the moon landings faked, but the moon itself is a holographic illusion that camouflages a giant alien space station beaming deadly waves of homosexuality down to the Earth. Which, by the way, is…

You should probably go see a gastroenterologist.

Old-timey derogatory terms do have the one upside that you can imagine their users as blustering pompous Victorian fools with top hats, handlebar moustaches and a penchant for opium.

Aren’t such versions usually the least popular, and so usually way down in the search results? I mean obviously there’s a lot of crappy torrents released but they’re not a good representation of the usual user experience.

I was gonna say, “problems you have with all torrents—crappy quality”? I’m genuinely disappointed on the rare occasions that I can only find ones of crappy quality. The rather common “WEB-DL” releases are even the exact same file available from more official sources, not re-encoded or anything (well, the exact same…

Clearly we just need more helium in our diet!

Looked to me more like Pikku was simply pointing out that autistic people are inherently more qualified to speak about our own experiences, thoughts, feelings, and preferences. It’s somewhat... perplexing when at the most extreme, non-autistic people try to tell us that their opinions on the matter are somehow more…

In some parts of the UK, people with vulnerabilities, impairments and/or disabilities can register with a scheme called “Pegasus”. Details of your impairments are put into a secure database, and at least if you call the emergency services and say pegasus (plus your PIN) it’ll bring up those details to the call…

“He was running towards us with a knife, backwards. The knife? Oh, um... it appeared to be made of ice. Melted before we could bag it as evidence. Completely routine, common backwards attack on police officers with an ice knife. Happens all the time, nothing to see here. Blue lives matter!”

This is one of the reasons I find the notion of a “cure” for autism, or even the implications of prenatal tests for it, so terrifying. Not just because I find the notion offensive that my way of looking at the world is so inherently “disordered” that it must be eliminated, but... where the hell does it leave humanity…

I have. The most abusive of my exes basically bullied me into being with him, and did not take our eventual breakup well at all. The fact I escaped without physical injury is a miracle. And personally I’m willing to believe it’s highly unlikely to be some inherent flaw with the male gender, that it’s more likely to be…

If a female clone of Benedict Cumberbatch was grown (i.e., inhibiting the usual testosterone processes in gestation that cause an embryo to develop into a male), I suspect she’d be rather pretty.

Sure, though to play devil’s advocate, Adam and Eve (let’s pretend they’re real) would have presumably been genetically fully human, and you could even argue that being the first humans makes them the standard definition of human. Navels however are a congenital trait so they’re environmental rather than genetic.…