You’ve had much more patience than I mustered.

But the world treats us very much as though we are,

Cassie, I <3 you so much right now. You’re my commenting hero!

This is kind of a disgusting comment. I am not an “experiment”. Regardless of what’s between my legs I have never been a boy or a man. You write:

Trans women are women. There’s no difference.

Every argument you’ve made on this thread hinges on your experiences. You don’t identify with gender, so no non-XX woman is allowed to claim womanhood. You are part of a “religious minority” so intersectionality is bullshit. You don’t see why telling women such as myself that they will never be true women because they…

If someone was raised as a boy despite knowing they were trans, they may have been treated like a boy, but they certainly didn’t feel like one. Do you not see why it would be upsetting to say to someone “you lost the childhood and adolescence you should have had because you were born in the wrong body, therefore I…

What a shock.

It’s also a thing that becomes radically important once child-having comes into it. The world gets downright violent when it comes to ownership of your body, person, and life as soon as you turn up pregnant. I see nothing wrong with recognizing the common experience of women who’ve been through this — which is most of…

72 stars in under an hour. I’m surprised it’s not more.

A bit of a simplification, but yes, basically that.

Yes, the whole “there’s no ban, but if you respect us you’ll know you aren’t welcome” is, if anything, more offensive to me than if they’d made “Assigned-female-at-birth only” a hard-and-fast rule.

Brava, Cassiebear!

a bit like how a psychiatrist can tell if someone is “acting” mentally ill or not.

"Astonishing As" [sic]

And before you ask or anything, my brother is a cop, so most times I'm siding with them.

Then the answer is probably to help cops be less paranoid, perhaps by dismantling the false perception that everyone is out to get them. They could help themselves by, you know, not making everyone distrust and despise them.

If you had to choose between being a cop or a landscaper, are you telling me you would rather be a cop because it's a safer occupation? Come on.

So when these landscapers hop aboard the truck loaded with sharpish stuff and head out to mow lawns in suburbia neighborhoods where people can afford to hand off yard maintenance to these ninja like dare Devils, they'rer in more danger than obviously marked police officers that are called to the scene when some…

Blackface isn’t cool, Drew.