Disheartening to see so many upvotes on this TERF transphobic nonsense. This is nothing but falsehoods based in a hatred of trans women, and as hate speech I hope Jezebel has the sense to remove it.

As Aaron Morris, executive director of the LGBT rights organization Immigration Equality, put it: “If a mother and father walk into a consulate and have a marriage certificate and birth certificate, they’re never asked any questions about the biology of the child. But the converse is also true and every same-sex…

Yes, I believe you’re right in regard to trans women. In fact, it’s so alluring, that trans people serve at twice the rate as cis people.

http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/still_serving_in_silence.pdf

The issue for me isn’t the modification itself, but the reason for undertaking the modification. I’m a trans guy who used to try to femme it up. I regret plucking my eyebrows for years (never felt right, but I did it anyway—that shit does not grow back). I have zero regret having plastic surgery to reshape my torso.…

I think that’s because it’s really a novel issue. I think Jonathan Peters has done some writing on the topic and speculated that Marsh might be the proper analogy—that’s the case that held that the First Amendment applies even in a private, company-owned town. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/501/case.h…

This may be more detail than you care for, but I suggest you read this: http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2563&context=lawreview

Regardless of whether he (government actor) can close the public forum that he opened, as long as it remains open he cannot discriminate against speakers based on their viewpoint. That’s 1st Amendment law 101.

And I would ask them how they manage to ever take naps at work when they can’t switch off their hearing.

I mean, I’m a trans guy, so in some ways my experience is inverse. But I think I can understand how as a trans person, anything that seemed to affirm your assigned gender, even if it’s otherwise a positive thing, like privilege, becomes tinged with a deep inner revulsion. That if you were aware at the time of…

And you know what your experience sounds like to me? Like the people you are describing are seeing you as male. They know the script is supposed to go “You are ABSOLUTELY a woman.” But they name these key aspects of being female that by their definition exclude you, “But you’re a woman with a DIFFERENT experience.” …

I don’t spend a lot of time with activists so it’s hard for me to gauge this on any meter other than internet commentary. But in the last year, I think I’ve seen exclusionary talking points pop up more frequently on what used to be fairly mainstream feminist spaces (Jezebel included).

One validation granted.

Not sure if you’ll see this since I’m a grey. I’m a trans man; I read every comment section on Jezebel on articles having to do with trans people or issues, specifically so that I can see the personal stories of other trans people. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Thank you. Fine, she’s a rich, ignorant republican. Lots of women are. The ire that she arouses in the left is disproportionate to the hate thrown on other right-leaning female public figures. And a lot of the trashing (again, coming from the left) is subtly—and sometimes obviously—transphobic.

Let’s give the buyers some credit for their brave first step in buying a book. Maybe the next will have pictures, and eventually...words.

I was doing my testosterone shot this morning, and then it dawned on me that they must have let Zeke have access to his hormones during shooting (unless he has a subdermal pellets). Does this mean Survivor is a lie?

Evicted, by Matthew Desmond, talks about this type of law at length and documents real-life consequences. There was a lot to be appalled by in that book, but this was the one that got to me the most.

I feel you. I’m a trans guy with tiny feet. I’m also very short—thanks to getting in shape, I can wear most men’s clothes with a little tailoring. The real problem is shoes. I can barely get away with a size six shoe if I have a thick insole. I also lust after footwear I’ll never be able to get in my size.

The real reason is that he’s super-duper gay, right?

And this is, incidentally, the most bad-ass answer to the horse/duck question.