Gender Identity is biologically-based. That has been confirmed by brain studies done around the turn of the millennium. There are also scientific studies that have uncovered genetic and developmental factors that lead to the brain differences.

There is a mountain of medical studies on trans folks. There are genetic and pre-natal developmental components - in essence, the brain develops in the first trimester along one of the gender lines, while the genital tract develops along the other - all it takes to go one way, is a gene that codes for super-efficient…

Are you suggesting that the trans woman in question was actually Mike “Coach I feel Like A Girl Today” Huckabee?

I wouldn’t want a man in the ladies’ restroom. But trans women are women.

If you’re referring to the woman in the picture you annexed, I’d suggest you might want to stop peering under the doors of bathroom stalls (assuming that’s how you’re judging the individual’s gender). It isn’t polite.

It may be that the woman suffers from one of those digestive disorders that cause an urgent need to defecate (such as Crohn’s, colitis, Irritable Bowel disease, etc.) and was about to poop in her pants if she couldn’t use the bathroom. In the US, states like Illinois and now New York, actually have laws requiring…

I was lucky last night. I waited at the office for the reds and yellows on the Weather Channe’s radar loop to pass before venturing out for the brief walk to Grand Central.  When I approached the Southwest corner of GCT at Vanderbilt and 42nd at around 6:10 PM, there was a crowd outside that could not get in. Rather…

I also watched an “explanation” on YouTube where the analyst sliced, diced and julienned the audio file and said that the upper registers say “Laurel” but all I could hear through the entire thing was Yanny,

Wait - are those the doctors in costume?

I am deeply disappointed in Joy Reid. As much as I have admired her work at MSNBC, she has done herself serious damage by first denying, and then admitting, the heterosexist blog posts of her past.

It’s called a “shotgun” approach, and is a perfectly legitimate tactic for naming defendants. Shotgun approaches are also used in the drafting of complaints (adding “causes of action” (federal court “claims”) that rely on some or all of the stated facts to serve as the basis for multiple theories of the case); and it…

Having recently lost my spouse, I only wish we had shared passwords for electronic devices - computer, phone and iPad are like bricks. Also, while I am aware of our joint accounts, it has been an adventure ascertaining other accounts for probate.

Ben Carson does not believe in equal rights for everyone. He exists, like other members of the Cabinet, solely for the purpose of crippling or destroying the agency he heads, and harming the people he is supposed to protect. I’d rather he spent time shopping for dining room tables than continuing to do actual harm -…

Not a bad sketch of Ms. Pirro, especially the background. She has certainly fallen far into the abyss. FWIW, you are getting a star . . .

Hillary Clinton is not running again. She has no further reason to pull her punches. I don’t care about the wounded feelings of Trump supporters either.

I insist that Make Pence apologize to the American People, and especially to the People of the State of Indiana, for all the evil things he has done from the time he was in Congress, from the time he was Governor, and now that he is sitting in the Vice Presidential seat for the evil he has done as part of the Trump…

The new Tappan Zee Bridge (another one with a politician name issue) is not a “New York City” bridge. I grant that in the latter part of the 19th Century, New York City expanded into the southern parts of Westchester County, in 1898 those parts of Westchester County and a bit more became part of New York City as the…

As with singular“they,” there is some resistance to gender-neutral “dude,” as “dude” is often implied-as-masculine. On the other hand, the use of a gender-neutral “dude,” and referencing a mixed or even all female group as “you guys” with “guys” being intended in a gender-neutral way, is acceptable in some circles.…

Since I knew that Latinx was a gender-neutral version of Latino and Latina, I was on the “La-TEEN-ex” pronunciation side ab initio. But I can completely see someone just reading it coming up with “La-TINX.”

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