Nice job writing sane comments!

I used to be in favour of trans people because I hadn’t much thought about the implications. I was like “yeah whatever, do whatever you want”. Until I actually read the “theory”. It’s fucking insane: there’s talk about male brain and female brain, yes “female brain” like in the 19th century. They claim that gender is…

Granted, it’s often difficult to tell these creeps from transwomen, but that shouldn’t be transwomen’s problem.

I just want to say that I am thankful you wrote this. It’s rare to see a repsonse with regards to transgender issues that’s well though out and balanced. I think you have been very respectful and don’t dersvere the insults people are throwing at you.

This whole issue baffels me. Why do people spend so much time…

Unfortunately some schools and work places can force women to wear dresses and make-up. (Though the latter perhaps not in schools). I have protested this rule in my last workplace and I was lucky they relented, because they could have just fired me for refusing to adhere to the dress-code and there would not have been…

Gloria Steinem wrote about Renee Richards in Outrages Acts and Everyday Rebellions. That is also the book that contains her article in the time she went undercover in a Playboy club.

I must say that Renee Richards’s story bears some striking similarities to Caitlyn Jenner’s story.

most schools with inclusive policies generally talk about a student’s “consistent” gender identity. This means, usually, that a student may change their gender, but within limits, like once per school year. Nobody is going to be “trans for a day”.

I agree that argument, as it stands, sucks; it erases not only gender-nonconforming people, but trans people who can’t, or don’t want to, “pass”. It’s very effective, though. A lot of people will reflexively think “OMG, can’t have (strawman stereotype of transwomen) in the women’s toilets, force them back into the…

But transwomen aren’t men. They’re women with atypical genitals and secondary sex characteristics. In fact, you could regard them as suffering a hormonal disorder that makes them look like men.

This argument. I hate this argument. What if the person doesn’t present themselves in a gender stereotypical manner, but they still believe they are “male” or “female”?