You are missing the intersex aspect of the story. There are women with high testosterone levels and vaginas. How’s that for blowing your small mind?

Professional sports and high school sports should have different bars.

Being transgender is not cheating. You might have legitimate concerns about an unfair advantage, but it’s not like an adolescent boy is pretending to have a rare condition to compete in women’s sports.

What’s missing from this analysis is that this is high school. High school sports are primarily about personal growth in a team context, secondarily about fitness, and lastly about pristine measurement of athletic performance. Compelling adolescents to medically alter their bodies, whether intersex or transgender, to…

For real. I remember watching that segment when it aired and being like, hmmm, that sounds pretty damn good.

In a two minute segment, Sean Hannity implied Obama was an out-of-touch elite for ordering Dijon on a hamburger. Meanwhile he shills for a man who eats pizza with a knife and fork and eats his steak well-done.

My uncle bought a boat for scuba diving and attracting ladies that scuba dive. Then complained that the ladies he was dating seemed to only care about his boat. Ummmm....yeah.

Ghosting, dragonfly style.

I’d say living authentically doesn’t save you from being an authentic asshole.

That’s an incredible mischaracterization of my post, along with conflating gendered experiences with social messages. I specifically called out the contrast between those raised from age 3-4 to those that transition as adults. Transgender adolescents on puberty blockers and estrogen are not magically immune to street…

Everybody’s milage varies on that. Socialization is a game of catch, and a lot of transgender people subconsciously catch gender-role messages aimed at their authentic gender. Also, we are now living with transgender adolescents that have been living as their authentic gender since age 3-4. As they come of age, there…

Reese’s are over the day one tries dipping a good bar of chocolate into a good jar of peanut butter. I’m never going back.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic. If so, disregard. Men are a vector for women, so reducing HPV in that population would reduce it in women as well. Also, M4M bottoms can get cancer from HPV. They really should vaccinate male/female adolescents to improve public health.

Baby steps towards the value of “personal responsibility” with these people.

These studies show one biological marker for transgenderism. That does not preclude other paths to transgenderism, but it does suggest that for the majority this condition is predominantly or completely biologically determined. Nobody in the trans movement is suggesting this become a gate-keeping biological test.

We are not in any disagreement. (This is really more about gender expression than gender identity, but they are highly correlated spectrums.) If it was considered highly feminine to spit, you’d probably have a lot of spitting ciswomen and transwomen. Most of the time they wouldn’t think consciously “I’m a woman, I…

No, that’s a personal narrative. I’m describing my experience with my sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation. Those are separate concepts which are not predictive, but are highly correlated. It’s common for all kids to do some non-stereotypical cross-gender play and expression. When it is a heavy,…

Again, I think this is preliminary research. “Despite recent research suggesting that these factors exacerbate rather than cause phantom limb pain” makes it sure sound like the causal direction is up for debate. And it really could be in a feedback loop, somewhat validating both theories.

I think that’s a valid critique of the study’s limitations, but I wouldn’t write it all off. Phantom limb isn’t emotional pain and loss, but physical sensations. Whether they avoid those sensations from subconscious obfuscation do an intense desire to be rid of a body part or their neurology is not wired the same are…

Really, people just want to pee. I wish as a prerequisite to commenting on what should happen, people should be forced to never use a public restroom for a whole year. Planning your day is a short-term strategy.