That’s excellent, I’ll definitely get one of those. Thanks for the link.

Yes, calling a stalker a ‘suitor’ isn’t cute and glib, it’s disgusting.

Intimacy and relationships have always had a transactional component. The concept of people courting or marrying “for love,” rather than to secure wealth or consolidate dynasties, is a modern invention. There is nothing new or scandalous about these arrangements, although I doubt people had public conventions to…

“Isn’t anyone who’d murder the innocents she’d been looking after and loving for over two years insane by any measure?”

All of you concern trolls who love and support the work and writing of Janice Raymond, please take note of who else is in her fan club: The Family Research Council, which quotes her on its website to affirm its authors’ positions on “Understanding and Responding to the Transgender Movement,” as follows:

A woman can rape another woman...

Who are you?

Hey folks, check out this bigotry! I’m trans, by the way, so this jerk thinks she’s being clever and insulting by making assumptions about my genitals. I’m sure the rest of her arguments are all in good faith, though!

Your boring inability to actually back up your claims with facts isn’t deflection, as much as you might want me to think it is (I recognize gaslighting when I see it). Also, your lazy appeal to authority by trying to list your credentials just makes it more sad when you then belie yourself as being wholly ignorant on…

If LGB women account for 10-20% of the prison population, and trans women for, let’s say, 1-2%, why are you focusing on the potential with issues in that 1-2% instead of the 10-20%? Other than bigotry, I mean.

There’s been one or two times, but hardly an epidemic. And, if you want to talk numbers, there are far far more lesbians out there than trans folks. And there’s far more concern-trolling around the idea of cis men using trans-affirming policies to access women’s spaces than there are actual instances of that…

And you would likely not pass the screening process.

Plus — not only is he typically tone deaf (I still remember all the sexist salivating he did who got him in hot water the first time I’d heard of him years ago) — but what he has the utter temerity to be yattering about (with the last name Cohen, no less) is straight out of the Koch Brothers handbook that they want to…

While the mandate does not require detainees to present medical documentation to support their assertion of gender identity (that’s a big part of the broader policy apparatus), a simple review of the the linked press release shows that it’s not as simple as merely asserting your gender identity, and that their is a…

Since there are so many legal eagles in the greys who think that this will be used by inmates to gain access to cushy facilities, let me just quickly give you an idea of what the general process for non-incarcerated trans folks is to get our identity recognized: 6 months of therapy with a psychologist who specializes…

He’s the type of milquetoast asshole whose entire opinion can be summed up as

Holy shit. I figured he was racist (he doesn’t even go for “I have a minority friend!” when he clearly would have if he had one), but that’s worse that I’d expect.

“used to be a lesbian”

“But when I see op-eds, such as the one recently in the New York Times that states in the headline that the Metropolitan Museum of Art should not have appointed “yet another white, male director,” I recoil. That’s just another way of saying that white and male is a disqualification.”

SHEESH! yo.