Her name is spelled wrong in the headline but correctly in the article.

You should probably spell her name correctly in the title?

And this is why imo Hillary Clinton often sounds like she is careful and practiced with her words. Because when she isn’t; when she’s honest and blunt that she is still learning and not an expert, she is ripped to shreds for not giving a perfect (practiced) answer.

I have no doubt that Clinton is transphobic and adopts TERF rhetoric

…….the Quest to Vilify Hillary is what’s unreal here......my Mom is 76 and when I lived in the French Quarter in the ‘90s, she retired early and came to live with me for 6 mos...…...it was a WHOLE NEW WORLD for her and she LOVED IT...…….when a couple of my friends told her how their families (invariably in the South)…

That would have been the perfect title for this piece.

I’m just super giddy that we can continue to jump all over HRC for even the slightest mistake. She was totally the same as Mango Mussolini and Old Man River/Dear Leader would've totally won. Jeeeeezuuuuuuusssss

“her support for various issues is less driven by her inherent beliefs than reflecting back what has become the political norm.”

The headline and URL misspells Hillary Clinton’s first name.

The title should probably be “cautious politician gives cautious answer to extremely loaded, leading questions about trans politics.”

hillary is a middle aged woman from a different era and her response was both appropriate and made in the spirit of understanding.

So you used an acronym TERF in the title and body of this post but never explain what TERF stands for? How did this get past your editor?

I think Hillary’s quote succinctly sums up why Women are luke-warm to outright hostile to Trans Women who want to just be “Women”:

YES. Thank you. I guess it comes down to how you interpret “gutsy” in this context - but to me, she is praising and emphasizing a parent’s decision to affirm and support their trans child as the right thing to do, even when society doesn’t make it easy. Reading it as “not pretty” seems extremely ungenerous. 

The subtext I keep seeing coming up in these stories now, is that I’m apparently a bigot/transphobe for having personal agency in who I am/am not attracted to.

That was how I read it as well. Not as drawing a line between cis and trans women but acknowledging that the lived experiences can be very different.

I think the clear moral of this story that we should always remember is that Hillary sucks, has always sucked, and will always suck.

... might be worth it to define an acronym before using it extensively in a piece. 

I’ve definitely seen people be called a TERF for acknowledging that. Which kind of dilutes the term, I think. As long as people are being respectful about it and acknowledging that trans and cis women have unique experiences and unique challenges, I’m not sure how that is being exclusionary.  

She's older and this issue is not something she is fully aware of. She said she's still learning and that's great. It shows she's actively learning and curious about current topics as a private citizen. The interviewer comes off bad here is what I read primarily. While we could split hairs about her not giving the…