No. This not like that at all. Transcult is the phenomenon that describes a sociocultural phenomena affecting a small but disproportionately vocal, and violent, group of people. It is similar to the late Victorian susceptibility to charlatanism – seances, spirit rapping, and the like, which fooled even people as…

It’s a nutty high school teacher named Grace Pokela. Gonna stick with my PhD in zoology from an R1 institution, thanks. I noticed you haven’t responded to the logical operator problem presented by the Bruce Jenner/Rachel Dolezal query. It’s quite a third rail for the cult, isn’t it?

Nope. Williamson, like Bruce Jenner, was born with XY chromosomes. He died with them. He was male. I am honouring his memory with the truth, not some delusional garbage being spewed by a cult, who are the reason he is dead.  

No. Sex is biological. You’re just making things up, and just like chemtrails or anti-vax I am not substantiating your delusions with a scholarly response.

We all sound the same because the facts are immutable. If you get a bunch of geophysicists or astronomers together, there isn’t going to be a vocal minority contingent who insists that there is no gravity or the earth orbits the sun or whatever and on top of that demand to be coddled for their foolery. This behaviour,…

What are you even talking about? You have inferred an awful lot from a single non–ambiguous sentence. This is called projection.

That’s so cool now that you’re retired you can patrol your daughter Rachel’s comment sections.

Live like a woman, die like a woman.

Thank you for this response. I am adding it immediately to my “Trans is a cult” scrapbook. The fact that you introduce a slur relevant only to that subtopic of feminist discourse is very telling, as is the high level of personal vitriol directed at someone making a non-personal, non-abusive observation about the…

That’s a transcript of an oral history, though. I think in archival terms “oral” history has a parallel in “aural,” that it’s something you listen to, sort of like what StoryCorps in the U.S. does. I worked in a special collections library that specialised in oral histories and became a big fan of editing.

Write an oral history...what?

...whether it’s being conservative and wearing lots of clothes...

Go fuck yourself and your only-lateral-thought-capable STEM degree. The fact that you don’t know a brand name that is as common as Xerox or Kodak means you are a Philistine, not that a designer is being deliberately obscurantist to frustrate your special Wharton School ass.