Decades of many people wanting the federal government to do something, whatever that something is, leads me to believe that we give lip service to libertarianism...but we really aren’t libertarians.

That’s a non-peer reviewed paper co-authored by one of the most notorious trans-haters in the country, who hasn’t actually treated a trans person in more than 40 years. It misrepresents the results of a single Swedish study, which reached that conclusion only for those who had surgery prior to 1989. In any event,…

I knew I wasn’t straight when I was like 4 years old. I also knew I was a girl. I don’t know why being trans would be any different. I sure as hell knew what gender I was when I was 8 years old

Yes, this is why I said developing. When I say complete, I mean they have right to autonomy. This means they get to determine their gender identity, and its fluidity (and it will be fluid). ‘Support’ is a loaded word, it can mean different things. Anyway, my point was really to say that childhood is not a period…

I can’t explain why I wanted to be a girl from as far back as I can remember (at least to the age of 3). I just knew I did. And that feeling never changed. And it had nothing to do with wanting to play with dolls or anything else like that. It’s just that being a girl seemed right to me. And being a boy seemed…

Watching the Way Jazz Jennings feels about herself compared to her peers who didn’t transition earlierI think shows how much easier it’s handled before puberty. Her being able to take hormones to grow breasts when her peers did and to block the testostorones (and a lot of the hormone blockers are reversable). Compared…

Most of those who have studied child development agree that gender identity has settled around age three or four. This if a child is consistent, insistent, and persistent about their gender identity being at odds with what they were assigned at birth, it’s best to start by getting them to some medical/psychiatric…

i’ve seen actor used as a genderless word.

You know, the thing about being the privileged/dominant/default is that it feels like you just are. For white people, we’re “people” whereas people of colour are racialized. For men, they’re “people” whereas women are...not men.* I have always, as a cisgender woman, been very aware of my gender, as have all the women…

Just as a thought -- “Gender-neutral usage of actor has re-emerged in modern English, especially when referring to male and female performers collectively, but actressremains the common term used in major acting awards given to female recipients and is common in general usage.”

You know that gender and sexual orientation are different, yes? I can’t tell if that was just rambly thoughts or conflating the two.

I’m on the fence (confused?) as to why there is controversy about Jeffrey Tambor playing Moara. Mostly because he was introduced to use a Mort / a dad. Then over the course transformed into Moara. This is true to the character.

The post specifies child actor.

Hmmmm.
Uninteresting.

I worry that stuff like this is getting too much in the trenches with Trump. It has no basis as far as we know (certainly could be true, what do I know, but zero basis at this point). What good does this do? Who will be swayed by this? All it does is let the right cite an instance that, at least superficially, is not…

Agreed. Hillary on the other hand is letting him run away with his rhetoric while Trump repeatedly cuts her off. She’s relying much too heavily on the assumption that people will know he’s making shit up.

take on the worst job in the world.

Trying to read into the quality of the embrace or what expressions on her face indicate whatever feelings she had is, to me, pointless.

The point of the post is that something people have said happened did not happen. What implications this has for any points made using the thing that did not happen as an evidentiary basis are up to the reader to determine.

As somebody who personally likes the Obamas a lot even though I think BO has been a huge let down economically--this is not the point. I’d say most ppl aren’t saying “Michelle betrayed us!”.

The issue is how fawning and obsequious the reaction has been from the vapid Buzzfee-style “Yass kweeen” journalists like Andrew…