It is better, I guess, for an anti-choicer to at least be in favor of exceptions from abortion bans for rape and incest, since the alternative is unbelievably cruel, but it sort of gives the game away. If a fetus is a human life, and abortion is murder, rape and incest exceptions make no sense. If a rape survivor kills…

I think part of the issue is that BC pills are overprescribed to people who might be better off exploring other options. I remember back in the 90s doctors pushing hormonal BC for everything from dysmenorrhea to weight loss(!), even when the harsh side effects clearly outweighed the benefits. I stayed on BC pills in…

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/health-effects/#:~:text=Obesity%20increases%20the%20risk%20of,changes%20in%20hormones%20and%20metabolism.

I've always considered myself to be very progressive, but I've felt some unease (not the best word but can't think of a better one) with saying things like trans women are real women, even if they haven't done anything to transition besides change their name and pronouns. I'm sorry but if someone refuses hormones,…

Agreed. I don’t think being trans should automatically disqualify anyone from competing. But a couple years ago there was a big uproar over 2 trans highschool girls competing in women's track. I apologize if I'm not remembering correctly, but I'm pretty sure they hadn't started a medical transition. Many progressives…

Factual error in the first sentence. She does NOT swim for “Penn State”. She is a student and athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, and completely different University hundreds of miles away from Penn State. Always annoying when those school are confused as they are VERY different institutions. 

It is more than right wingers that are concerned about trans women such as Thomas competing against cisgender women. And it hardly advances reasoned discussion on the issue to pretend so. Whether it is pure talent and determination that brought Thomas these wins, or the skeletal-muscular and lung capacity advantages…

Truly exceptional swimmers, regardless of gender, are pretty rare. There’s a REASON everyone knew who Michael Phelps is, and before him it was Ian Thorpe and before that... man I can’t even remember? Because they were so far beyond the norm for that time that they stood out. Most years it’s a pretty close competition…

Sexual dimorphism is a thing; it can’t be wished away, argued away or dismissed just because it is politically inconvenient.

That’s because it’s a man swimming on the women’s team. It’s riduculous to say he’s a woman and belongs on the women’s team. Why does anyone believe this nonsense? Men are men. They can explore their gender expression, but it doesn’t make them women and it’s completely unfair to have a man on the women’ s team. 

I am a Catholic convert who is also a law student and progressive-leaning. I despise the American anti-abortion crowd (my mom used to run a crisis pregnancy center that deliberately engaged in false advertising) and I’ve voted blue every time. I have my religious convictions about abortion but I don’t make that a…

They don’t fully understood the issue. They were raised Catholic and believe that all life is precious. They’re against the death penalty for the same reason. They used to be pro-voter ID laws. They’re not anymore because they learned what’s actually behind them. They used to think being queer was “fine.” They now…

Agreed. This furthers my MIL’s (stolen from Fox) narrative that liberals delight in murdering babies.

This is a bullshit stunt that helps no one and accomplishes nothing. This is not how you win people over.

I’m just upset that there wasn’t a photo of the new author with big hoop earrings that said “SOUTHERN”

I think the reason many of the faiths don’t do it is because those dogmas were the selling point. Changing your brand would only piss off existing people, I can’t imagine it would make many suddenly want to join.

Oh bollocks, went to all that trouble to keep them straight in the first comment and couldn’t in the second. I have to say the quality of my pronoun editing tends to vary based on how much I suspect the person’s identity is a function of social currency.

Let me just clarify what we all know has happened. This liberal white woman in a hetero relationship, while immersing herself in the lives of these mostly queer, mostly BIPOC former athletes...completely lost her sense of identity within them. She started referring to them as “elders” and modeling her life in ways she…

What an odd piece with a lot of ambiguity. Without more info, it sounds like the author married a cishet man knowing they were queer, and presumably with him knowing they were queer, and then the author resented that arrangement for not letting them be “queer” enough despite fully knowing that’s not how queerness…

If we didn’t have a picture of the author I’d honestly wonder if this wasn’t a fake Dear Prudence style submission designed to test the tension Jezebel’s readership would face between recognizing how poorly this reads in terms of how they treated their husband but not wanting to drag a queer person going through a…