No, you want to believe that a woman stops being a woman if she ever has to have an oophorectomy-hysterectomy. Because parts > people.

Do you or do you not believe that gender is a social construct? How can anyone have a gender identity if gender is not real in the first place?

I guess the junk science is still popular out there.

“Born male?”

I’m not going to disregard the intrinsic humanity of trans people just because the person screaming hate at them happens to be a woman.

I was top in my class in biology and had a mentorship in the heart research facility ay the Cleveland Clinic my senior year. I’m 40 years old now and perfectly able to grasp the concept that scientific knowledge is always evolving.

it is a failure of your own imagination and understanding, not a failure in the argument that transgender people exist and it is really possible to be born with a brain that doesn’t match your body in regards to gender.

Trying to be actually helpful here, there’s not an easy way to describe it. I am not entirely sure that it’s possible for you to understand, sort of like how as a person-who-is-attracted-to-women it’s impossible for me to truly understand what it “feels like” to be attracted to men. The best way I can put it is, when…

“Simple. I’m a woman because I am a human adult female. That’s literally what the word “woman” means.”

As someone who identifies as gender fluid/agender, your insinuations are troubling. I was born with a vagina & uterus, but the “me” inside, as it were certainly does not identify exclusively with the female gender, even though most often I present as “female”(though not always). I have dated trans women, I have many…

This rhetoric comes from anger. As a feminist myself who was raised by a second waver...I have a close family friend who is over sixty and is just now starting his transition from male to female. She has always been her. It wasnt till five fucking minutes ago we could have meaningful public discourse about this shit.…

How is the university shutting her up? How would that even be possible? They didn’t offer you a lecture platform either; are you being censored?

I kind of have to disagree. For less privileged trans individuals than Caitlyn, whether or not someone has come around to trans allyship could mean life or death, more so than any other single demographic. Moreover, people have successfully used “trans panic” as an legal defense against horrible violence they have…

I get that this is bad, but in the 90s she hounded a trans woman chemistry professor (I think, it happened when I was really young so it’s a bit murky) in a campaign that would make the WBC proud. She’s not going to move forward ever and we need to accept this and respond appropriately.

Thank you. Not giving her a bullhorn doesn't equal censorship.

Regarding freedom of speech, and censorship: nobody is saying we should cut out her tongue. That's substantially different from providing her a platform and paying her to appear. It makes me wonder how many of these people would be criticizing the petition if, say, UC Berkeley had invited the Phelps (of WBC infamy) to…

To say so is coming from a place of privilege. While there is so much violence being committed against trans women, it is important to call out folks who undermine trans women’s experiences and validity. Allowing that kind of rhetoric to continue creates allowance for the attitudes that are dangerous toward a…

Transphobia is more than just a disagreement or freedom of speech. It’s dangerous ignorance. Imagine if there was a speech on how homophobia is a mental disease. If people are respecting gays now, then transpeople need that respect too. This mentality is not just a point of view. It’s fuel to transphobic crimes. Trans…