From what I understand, Brandon had not done any hormone treatment. Trans men that are pre-hormones, or elect to not take hormones live with more vulnerability. The more androgynous your features, like Swank, the more you can read ‘male’, but there is still a fragility to those that, like Brandon, are living ‘stealth’.…

You are conflating gender with sex. Understandably, as they are highly correlated concepts. Just like gender expression and gender identity are highly correlated concepts. But as Johnny Weir proves daily, those are also only highly correlated, not perfectly correlated.

There is such a grey area with how people are misgendered. Some people have a very difficult time with using pronouns disconnected from how they perceive sex. It does take them awhile even with earnest attempts. Other people, are just being dicks and use it as a way to humiliate and show disapproval. It’d be like if…

His use of science to support his opinion was garbage. There is no definitive set of traits that define a good engineer. A job is not the sum of a few traits operationalized and measured in specific scientific context outside of the role of that job. He can theorize that being a “people person” makes somebody a worse…

tl;dr? The transgender woman was prescribed hormones to achieve the same levels as a pregnant women, not extra. You could maybe wonder about passing on domperidone in the milk supply, but a lot of cis women take it for the same reason (no issues are expected). I hope you have a chance to get super judgey about that in…

I think you are missing the point. There are men undeserving of shame that have small dicks, micropenises, neo-phalluses (which can be as small as micropenis). When those men hear other men mocked for baby dick, they get to share in that shame for something they have no control over.

Hysterectomy comes to mind for transgender men. It’s a common procedure for older women with health indications, and also somewhat common procedure in transgender men. Probably most medical professionals that perform the procedure in non-major-metropolitan areas have not had a trans patient yet. Not all people…

There are three possible reasons for that, likely in combination.

As somebody who has been trained by UC, they do 1) extensively. For 2) they have done this but I’m not sure how effective it has been. For 3) they should instead investigate these people cause they are doing it regardless of extensive training. They are rotten apples, not untrained apples.

You do know there are transcripts, right? While I’d love to say my direct line is exclusive, it’s fully accessible to the American public. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/14/us/politics/flynn-call-russia-timeline.html?_r=0

There is a qualitative difference between facilitating initial contact and negotiating at cross-purposes. Obama had just signed in sanctions and Flynn is on the other line, telling Russia how Trump will lift them.

This. We live in a dense Bay Area city with rent control. The schools go from decent-to-meh-to-horrible. We have looked at buying a house for when my toddler goes to school, but the premium cost-of-living with a mortgage and a commute make private school look cheap. The public elementary school seems good and getting…

You aren’t even a creative troll. Have to crib off others on this very thread. Sad!

Get over yourself. You are the one saying preditory pedophiles should be considered on the same level as two teenagers 4ish years apart. To do so trivializes the dangers of pedophile.

A reply so smug, I feel for yours.

Yes, debating the boundaries of Romeo and Juliet laws and the variation in human development is JUST like advocating for pedophiles. Way to add to the conversation.

I have never dated anyone younger than 18. And, have never been attracted to anybody near the Half+7 rule above or below my age. Not even close. My spouse of 10 years is one year older than me. But thanks for the amateur profiling.

At 19, I finally made it to Mike Tyson in Punch-out.

For most people, but not for people at the statistical tails of development. And a 19-14 year old could also be closer to 4 years apart.

The shade of creepy is context dependent. People mature emotionally, psychologically, and physically at different rates. A 14 year old girl could be 6 years past the start of puberty, while a 19 year boy could be 5 years past. Not to mention a 14-19 year old can be closer to 4 years apart than 5 years apart.