The Wild Card series is seriously good stuff, though. And that’s how Railroad originally gained prominence.

You don’t take the high road for the sake of your target. You take the high road for the sake of yourself.

I’d argue Bush’s loss had more to do with Perot than Buchanan, but that one is certainly debatable.

Birth certificates are regulated by the states. The process of changing the gender on your birth certificate varies widely depending on the state you were born in, and some large states (like Texas) don’t allow you to change the gender on your birth certificate at all.

See, my reading is that the only status quo candidate to win a presidential election in the last 50 years is George HW Bush, so she was doomed from the outset.

The Midwest. There were multiple houses just down the road from me for sale for $40k this fall. Easily commutable (~30 min) to a midsize city.

Visibility of transmen is extremely recent, even among the trans community. I remember serious-minded transfolks in 2005 trying to figure out if there was a biological reason for their being such a huge discrepancy between the number of transmen and transwomen (something like 5 times as many transwomen as transmen…

Being fired from the account is not the same as being fired from their job — they would have plenty of other accounts they work on.

Absolutely true. My father could turn his drawl on and off depending on whether or not he wanted to be underestimated as a dumb East Texas hick, and he made sure I learned how to do it too.

If enough voters had voted for Bernie that he had won the primary *and* the general, then yes, I think Congress would have enacted it.

There is nothing transphobic people hate more than being forced to be consistent.

And all *that* would do is expose a lot of intersex folks whose chromosomes don’t match what’s on their birth certificate.

Thanks, that’s the first explanation that resonates with me. I’m a huge radio/podcast listener, so I can see the similarities.

Exactly. If you grow up in the bubble, it takes a lot to crack that shell.

I have residual distrust of Hillary on LGBT issues from the ‘90s, but there is no universe in which she isn’t 1000 times better than Trump.

During repeated failures on one of those timed races in one of the Ezio Assassins Creed games, where Ezio kept running up a pillar instead of past it, my wife threw her controller against the wall, then went and got a hammer and smashed our PS3 into pieces. Still the most extreme reaction I’ve seen.

I transitioned ten years ago next month. It’s been very weird to see everything get so much better for transfolk, and then quickly come rolling back to just about where they were when I transitioned.

One of the insights I had when I started working in accounting is that money is just a measurement tool. It’s not even a very good measurement tool, it’s just a comparatively easy one to agree on. It is amazing how many people forget (or don’t realize) that when making decisions, and act like comparing the value of…

As a transwoman, choosing my own name was one of the most empowering things I have ever done. I wish that as a society we had a ritual of naming ourselves at adulthood so that everyone could experience it, and that no one was expected to hold onto their child name.

That was my first thought — was that it was a weird copy of the Japanese thing where it is rude to expose your open mouth.