You’re right, of course. Sadly, society currently conflates sex and gender to such a degree that many deny intersex people, let alone transgender people, exist. Being assigned a sex inevitably means being assigned either a male or female gender, and a matching set of gender expectations. Too many people are wrong,…

The parents may make zero assumptions about gender, but the rest of society will. These parents want to raise their child free of expectations of gender. Keeping the baby’s sex a secret is literally the only way these parents can raise their child the way they want

Sex and gender are different things, although they’re often used interchangeably. Sex is the physical characteristics. Gender is how the individual perceives themselves. Babies are generally assigned a sex at birth by a quick look at their genitals, but that’s not definitive even for sex. It’s not connected to…

Good thoughts to these parents. All official documents have to do to accommodate intersex and non-binary people, is to include a box marked other. That’s it. And yet there’s so much fuss about it. Does the other box cause an acceleration in global warming? The death of the bees? Polar bears to spontaneously…

No one is thinking anyone will be encouraged to sic their dogs onto koalas. This is not a “bad example” outrage, this is a “fuck you, this is not a joking matter, you don’t fucking go there” outrage.

SHE DID WHAT??? Oh HELL no, girl! Do NOT fuck about with koalas. I realise it was intended as a joke, but...just no. Chasing kangaroos, that would have been fine. Koalas...no. Just no.

On the Interesting side...his aides could easily have headed him off a loooong way before they did. They let him look (even more) worrying and disoriented (than usual). Appears they have no sympathy for their charge...

It would definitely be a mess. That’s the main legal problem I see with multi-partner marriages; all existing legislation and precedent is based on two-person marriage. Of course that’s no reason not to recognise multi-partner marriages, but it does mean that a lot of laws will have to be written from scratch.

Sadly, not in Australia. It’s an embarrassment we’re not there yet, but we’re working on it.

Crap, that’s a thought that hadn’t occurred to me. Yeah, a male Trump supporter likely has fucked-up ideas about consent, especially towards women. And God help you if you’re a transwoman...

I was thinking exactly that. Black Lives don’t matter, millions losing access to healthcare doesn’t matter, women losing reproductive rights don’t matter, the real injustice is Trump supporters not getting their dicks wet. Sad!

The Market is deciding, Shaun. I thought you and your ilk supported that.

Well, a nuclear winter may at least reverse global warming. Which isn’t happening.

Not just the estates. There would also be copyright on the photographs and designs. They are in a WORLD of legal hurt.

To all in the African-American community; I am so sorry for the loss of this man, for the fear and dread and betrayal you are feeling.

The majority of questions were about trans issues, so that’s what I went with. Everyday Feminism also has information about intersex people.

Ah, that makes sense. Didn’t occur that the hand may not have been your only injury.

Heroin, morphine and cocaine used to be legal. It didn’t work out well. Ask those people why they think it would be different this time, if they were legalised again.

Did you have surgery? When I broke my hand it was painless once it was splinted. No way I would have needed pain killers.

Possibly they just didn’t want a dead American on their hands. The idea of his family paying has a lot of merit, though.