Hot-take middle name poll: Stellar as masculine Stella (again, middle name only).

Eh, the “smart money” whether it has insight or not will always try to take advantage of inefficiencies in the market. The idea that the dreamers, gamblers, cheaters and grinders will decide to settle for Vanguard S&P 500 seems a little ridiculous IMO.

The men’s Olympic limit for testosterone is 270-1070 ng/Dl. This is the guideline transgender men taking external testosterone must follow to qualify. However, many men naturally are over that 1070 limit. Should transgender men be able to increase it to the upper ceiling of testosterone of the athletes competing?…

Oh, yes, no blood has ever been shed in the name of Jesus, and priests/pastors have never raped little boys. Have a trolltastic time on Jezebel.

“Persons of color” is preferred by many minority activists and activist organizations. You clearly are not active or even allied in the issues that matter to ethnic and racial minorities.

When you say the data is not there that sounds like a comprehensive in dismissal. Are you involved in the research or the funding side? Or would you like me to ask my wife if any of the research she’s reviewed or done that has convinced her is published, and point you to a link? Also, I’d say since the activity of…

1. How do you reconcile these: “...I have way too much experience to just trust any research” and “I think everyone needs to do a lot more research.”

Yes, we are still talking past each other. As I admitted, it’s not a perfect analogy, but I’m trying to illustrate gender dysphoria. Think of being trans as having a cartilage problem with your knee. It’s a yes/no thing, you can see it with an x-ray. Think of gender dysphoria as the pain caused by said knee problem.…

I’m responding to you saying that I am calling most transgender people mentally ill, which I’m not. It was a perfectly reasonable clarification as to suggest I am calling trans people mentally ill by talking about gender dysphoria means you don’t understand what gender dysphoria is even. I’m not making a strawman or…

‘The American Psychiatric Association, publisher of the DSM-5, states that “gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.”’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dy…

No, transgender is not a mental illness. However, gender dysphoria is a condition highly correlated with being transgender. Most transgender have some form of gender dysphoria, and again, symptoms and severity differ. Every gender dysphoric person decides the best treatment for them in collaboration with their doctor.

Symptoms/severity of gender dysphoria vary among people. Incredibly simplified, but think of knee replacements. You get to elect in collaboration with your doctor if/when your pain threshold and mobility requires a knee replacement. Just because your coworker has decided a cane, glucosamine, and occasionally pain…

The American College of Paediatrics is not a reputable organization. They are an organization of 200ish medical professionals that incorporate religious doctrine into their press releases. There name is meant to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics, which had 64,000 primary care pediatricians and…

1. You are right that non-conforming gender expression is common in LGBT children. That is different gender dysphoria, which happens when your gender identity does not match your assigned gender. One is an objective observation of behavior and preferences, the other is a state of being. Transgender and LGB/Straight…

Uerthra lengthening through the phallus is common in both procedures. I’m guessing more-so with the full-size phallo, but I don’t know any statistics.

Sense of gender and sense of self are different.

For young kids it’s all a social transition, as children are fairly androgynous until puberty. If the trans child is under the care of a trans-competent doctor for from a young age, often they will go on puberty blockers at the very start of their puberty to prevent it from taking place. They usually then wait till…

You could ask about their pronouns. And if they are them/they/theirs or other than the binary, then I think you handled it great. But I’m a transman, maybe somebody can speak to non-binary or agender etiquette.

Here is your TMI: Vaginoplasties: Male-to-female construction of a vagina. Phalloplasties: Female-to-male construction of a phallus (penis). I can’t speak for vaginoplasty, but phalloplasty is a multi-stage surgery that results in a average-cis-sized penis (sometimes above-average). Most phalloplasties take nerve and…

Did Wilson even spend 3 months salary on that? Looks like he might have skimped a little.