Yes. Although, the research is still preliminary, there have been differences observed in the structure of the brains of transsexual people vs. cis brains of cis-gender people. Certain structures on brains of transgender people* seem to more closely resemble those of the opposite sex (ie the gender they identified…

Except that all people no matter develop either male or female so there is plenty of room for atypical development. It's more than possible that someone who is born male bodied, would develop physical (ie intersex people) or brain (transsexual people) structures more typically associated with the opposite gender (or…

To be fair, it's a safe guess considering how many women have been sexually abused; the numbers are on his side. Once the woman admits to having been abused he can blame whatever the problem was on that and boom, he has the answer. No hard thinking on his part. Basically Dr. Drew is a phone psychic.

Logo aired a similar series years ago about college kids called Transgeneration. They played it almost constantly (since the channel was new and they didn't have a lot of content yet). While the series wasn't perfect, it showed trans kids in a way that most audiences had never seen before (this was like 2005 or '6 and…

Friends, it's not often that I would say this, but it is pitch fork and torches time. To the twitters!

Somerville is not the JP of the north. Somerville is superior in every way.

Clearly, he's a hack. If you're professional, you do your fucking job on the fucking stage. You don't "practice" in random parking lots. Making people laugh is what you "do"—berating people on the street has nothing to do with being a comedian. Even insult comics need to build a certain level of trust with their…

I don't feel bad. We all die, he had his time and now it's over. He made his choices and I, for one, think the world will be better without him.

While it's use and opinions about it's use really varies within the community, I feel like it should be fairly obvious that it's not an appropriate descriptor to be used in an op-ed piece especially by a straight person. At it's best, it's a casual term.

Except that he said he went where ever it was he went to learn about what is offensive but in the same breath that he says that, he describes the person he ostensibly wanted to learn from with an offensive term.

One young man, an F-to-M tranny, said...

The surgery doesn't hurt, the recovery does. Now that we all know, we can move on.

Except that is has to do with so much more than genitals. Honestly, very very little changes in your day to day life after surgery. It's very important on a personal level, but people you interact with on a daily basis can't tell if you've had surgery or not. These women aren't putting themselves out there to talk…

This is it exactly. It would be like if no one ever asked a new mother how she was making the adjustment to motherhood or how the baby was getting along, they just wanted to know about stretched labia and scars. Sure, stretched labia and surgical scars are part of childbirth, but not the only—or even the most…

Good. This case is absolutely fucking horrible and heartbreaking. People need to hear about it.

Soon? Tomorrow? Can we dare to hope? Although, let's face it this is the world we live in now, if they go away something worse will take there place.

Oh man, that is the bummer about viral video. When you're in that line of work and you're doing it every single day, at some point you're going to do something stupid. I mean, that one clip is the only thing we know about this lady but she's on TV every day. It's her job, you know? Even though she's in front of a…

Because that will be both worth it and necessary.

Sorry that doesn't really pass muster since that sets you up to be a 'real' man and the trans man as a lesser type of man instead of simply being two different types of men. That said, I think the distinction should really only be made when trans issues come into play. Like I wouldn't refer to you as a gay man unless…

I just flew South West last week and it was so nice not to have to turn off my devices. I travel enough that all my books are ebooks because carrying two or more paperbacks on a plane is too much of a hassle (especially if you finish your books on your trip and then need to find a way to get rid of them and find new…