Women buying tickets to movies with female-oriented content isn't dismissed as fluke - on the contrary, "chick flicks" are the only time women count.

Jared Leto probably meant it that way. But that doesn't make that wording okay. He may not think Rayon is a man in drag, but the image comes to mind. It's somewhat like a person saying "whore" for a sex worker or "colored" for a black person.

I should add, if you know an issue well, that's one thing. Jared Leto seems to not really know why people are offended, and doesn't understand the issue. When that's the case, you can be just digging the hole deeper when you keep talking.

Saying "dragged up" makes it sound, to me, like people who talk about a trans woman being just a "man in drag". This is the kind of thing that requires very careful wording, it's true.

I'd definitely be interested to know the breakdown of voting members, but it may take some time to be published in English on the net. The only Israeli-based link I've found so far on this vote is the one linked in the lgbtqnation article linked in this article - and that source article is in Hebrew.

I've always thought the allowance for an X gender marker in places like Australia was great, and a sign of recognition of intersex people, who are ignored by many other "progressive" countries.

I've been in a few unisex bathrooms for multiple people, in university. Those had the urinals pretty much in the open, but off to one side enough that no one was going to see anything but the back of a person using them, except another person using them.

This is a good thing, as far as it goes. But, two things:

That's interesting (and a dumb law). I'm fairly sure that isn't the case here, as I do know a few places here with just unisex washrooms. But good on that restaurant.

And on the other hand, I'm a cis man. If there's no urinal, I can pee into the toilet. I don't have a urinal at home, and it's never been a problem.

This is a serious issue. I also have a serious problem with gendered individual bathrooms. I see a fair number of them in my area, and they are so incredibly pointless - if you are perceived as the "wrong" gender using them, you easily may get grief, when you couldn't be sharing the bathroom with someone of the…

I completely agree. Opposition to same-sex marriage is a part of the Republican Party platform I obviously don't support - but if they suddenly changed to supporting gay marriage and gay adoption and even opposing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, I still wouldn't support them (not that I'm in the US…

Well damn. That response was on my cell phone, this is on my work desktop, maybe that made a difference. I can see it. Ah well. Damn NuKinja! *fistshake*

I apologized in more words, to you, around an hour ago. Looking back at it, I wasn't too thrilled with how I put it - felt like I was excusing myself. I dunno, maybe you didn't see it?

Hmm. That was kind of a shitty apology. So I'll just go with: I'm really sorry.

I'm sorry if I was policing and offensive. I was objecting to a certain attitude, but I did veer into talking about what i shouldn't have. I'll completely agree it's not my place to decide what "lesbian" means, or to tell anyone how to describe their personal sexual identity.

People tend to be attracted to certain physical characteristics. Often that's a social construction (there's plenty of argument about how much of "beauty" is socially constructed). But there's been much argument of biological reasons for someone to be gay, and the idea that they were "born that way".

As I said, trans men "often" have penises, but it's certainly true that they often don't. Buck Angel doesn't, but I still consider him a man. My partner is a trans man, and doesn't intend to get bottom surgery (though if he decided to, I'd support whatever choice he felt was right for him).

I'm mostly talking about how lesbians deal with trans men when they had no previous relationship and the men have already at least partially transitioned. When they have a relationship pre-transition, that's more complicated - the lesbian may be in love with the trans man and gender identity may not change that.

I imagine that can be a part of it - but that doesn't make it right to just ignore the identity of trans men, and it supports the ways TERFs exclude trans women (trans men are often allowed into "women-only" spaces, and trans women often are not allowed in the same spaces).