I'm sorry, are the Nigerian schoolgirls "focusing inherently on their genitals"? We live in a society where so much about who we are is determined based on our genitals, or the perception of our genitals, including our gender. I'll stop focusing on the reality of my genitals when I live in a society that doesn't…

Wow. My post got deleted? Ok.

Behold the state of affairs.

What does that have to do with it? Being a female isn't about being able to have a baby. It is about the fact that you have the biology to have one, whether that biology "works" or not. Biology SHOULDN'T matter, but we live in a culture where all sorts of oppressions are placed on people because of their biology,…

A few things.

Did Gawker forget to mention that means he wasn't using birth control at the time either?

Your point? Is that supposed to make it easier?

No, because as I noted in my post, that is clear to me. My issue is striking a balance of creating safety for a transwoman coming out to her classmates and the legitimate fear of violence that female students have from males trying to creep; a historic reality that they have had to deal with.

I don't see how, in light of the fact that the NYT just published an article this week saying that females who produce too much testosterone (for a wide range of reasons) were forced by the International Olympic Committee to have their clitorises snipped (yup. IOC sanctioned and doled out FGM.).

Men creep on women's bathrooms all the time in drag and out. A really easy google search (man in women's clothes or man wearing panties and women's bathrooms or man takes photos of women in bathroom) will turn up about eight examples in the last four months. I think we can actually figure out how to balance this…

Words to live by, Kanye, words to live by.

Sorry, just have to say this again, slavery never was just about people of color. White people ran it, white people facilitated it, white people profited from it and so slavery is just as much about white people as it is about POC. It does everyone a disservice if white people "opt out" of slavery narratives. They…

Erm, 12 Years a Slave dealt with white people almost as much as it did with POC. There was plenty in there for white people to rassle with. Plenty.

Say more? Not knowing what this is.

Sure, sorry just getting back here and seeing this.

That is, in fact, the reality of black women, who are considered easy regardless of who they are or are not dating, thinking, wearing or whatever. I think white women in interracial relationships are thus tarred with that particular taint. Men in relationships with black women who aren't of color (in particular)…

As a black woman, I can't even begin to explain how cultural notions about your disposability and lack of work directly effect your sense of self.

intersex individual are not trans. It is deeply uncool to colonize their experience. Some intersex folks are gay, some are straight. Some are trans. But they are not the same thing. In the words of ISNA: "Intersex is a socially constructed category that reflects real biological variation." (emphasis added).

See, this is where this conversation gets really uncool to me.

I actually said nothing about treatment. Every human being deserves respect, freedom from violence and an ability to live their lives fully.