The standards of care are very cautious. It involves the adolescents, therapists, doctors and parents in a conversation. Puberty blockers which are relatively safe and reversible are generally used at the onset of puberty till around 16. It’s only then transgender adolescence are prescribed cross-sex hormones. The…

In what has to be a first in the history of the Internet, I have expressed an opinion on a subject, others have presented differing points of view on that subject, I have learned some things I didn’t know, and I have been persuaded to change my thinking. This is of course no consolation for this kid, but change…

I just don’t get people who are so proud of their willful ignorance. I will admit that a few years ago I wasn’t very well versed in trans issues. I didn’t know very much about the trans experience. But my knee jerk reaction wasn’t to dislike trans people or start talking about what they should or should not do like I…

I’ve tried to explain this to white people. It’s pretty common for black people to feel:

I don’t know if this is going to make any difference in your thought process or not, but I’m gonna lay it out. I went to elementary, middle and high school with someone who is most certainly a trans man today. Despite being religiously conservative, I was friends with her, because I was also super unpopular and so was…

I am in total agreement. It’s doping, period, even if it’s for a medical cause. An athlete should not to have to compete against someone and their team of endocrinologists.

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In what in god’s name do they have to compare it to?

I don’t believe someone can have a fully informed sexual or gender identity at 8 years old without them being thoroughly steeped in someone else’s sexual agenda or at least being overexposed to sexual or gender matters and in such a case their opinion isn’t reliable enough to be taken seriously.

What kind of stupid comment is this?

Why are non-adults being allowed to change their sex when they haven’t even fully matured?

Yeah, he should be wrestling with the guys. Like he wants to.

Going to try to be as careful as possible here, but while he should be able to compete in the boys division without everyone losing their shit, don’t those parents have a point that someone on testosterone maybe shouldn’t be able to wrestle girls?  

There is no ignorance like willful ignorance.

There is no left vs right. Just people with money pitting people without against each other so they don’t realize who’s really screwing them over.

How is it a straw man? We’re talking about what statutes of limitations should be. That can’t depend on the facts of individual cases. I opened by saying there were good arguments that there should be no statute of limitations for rape, and I’m certainly not saying that Cosby would be prejudiced if he could be…

Here’s an article on some legal issues relating to potentially strategic delay of prosecution:

If you think the passage of time can never aid the prosecution, I can only assume you have no familiarity with criminal law. It would be very easy for the prosecution to meticulously document and preserve all the evidence supporting the case and then sandbag so that the defendant is faced with charges when they don’t…

Your first paragraph seems to be interpreting me as saying the opposite of what I said. I’m saying that the theory isn’t that it stops mattering with time.

There’s a lot of good arguments to be made that statutes of limitations for rape should either be longer or not exist at all, but the length of the possible sentence isn’t really relevant to what the statute of limitations should be. The theory behind statutes of limitations isn’t “oh, it was so long ago, just forget…