He. :/

Gah, my big bad. Editing now to correct—except I can't. So, everyone pretend I used the correct pronouns instead of getting excited about how he looks like my favorite Degrassi character that I fucked up an essential part of a person's identity. This does not reflect well on me at all.

That'll happen in around 2285.

He, actually. Chase identifies as male and uses male pronouns.

Because apparently a piece of cloth completely covering a person's head and face = makeup?

Yeah, yeah, the stats say the entire foreign population (much of which is Asian) is only at 2%, so roughly two and a half million people with foreign nationality. Here's part of the issue with that. Japan doesn't track people by race only by nationality. A white Japanese person (and they absolutely exist, see Inoue…

Click through to the original story and look at the before and after. He was wearing very minimal makeup. There's no way anyone would have looked at a photo of him with that makeup and then at his bare face and not known it was the same person. Hell, my hair drastically changes at least 5 times in between license…

It's the only way we can truly be safe from terrorists masquerading as gender-nonconformist teenagers.

I hate to be that guy, but this person is in South Carolina, what was the expected outcome?
The fact that the DMV employee did not assault Chase Culpepper is a minor miracle.

If Ukraine your neck around I'm sure you'll find one eventually.

Don't like gay people? Crimea river!

explain to them what kind of sexual orientation they should stick to

Fingers crossed.

But you know, if that were somehow miraculously true, they'd have to DNA test it just in case.

Reading this was an eye opening experience for me - as a hetero man. Apart from the taunts, the underlying theme of both the writer, and the supposed genteel society that was reading it was, "they deserved it."

Kat, thanks for this article, and your others. They're why I still come to Jez

Okay, if this hadn't been used in such a despicable nature, this would have been a gorgeous line:

the article is gross as all get out. But to be fair, the author has a strong ability to turn a phrase. Even though I hated everything he had to say, the whole is remarkably readable. Far better than modern Post articles.

i agree with you. i mean the ultimate insult that boys use against each other has to do with being likened to a girl albeit derogatorily. i would love to also hear about the experiences of masculine gay boys in school.

I actually think there's something to that idea, although I'm not entirely clear if it's something I should have the main voice on, given that I am not a cisgender gay man and never was a cisgender gay boy. What I do know is that in my own experiences, I gave notice over and over and over that views of me as a "gay…

Agreed, completely and utterly agreed. It was a realisation I came to in high school after reading Reviving Ophelia and looking back at a childhood and adolescence full of physical abuse and verbal harassment. I was attracted to and dated other girls, so actually being perceived as a "gay boy" had nothing to do with…