Hope you feel better about yourself. What could be a learning opportunity has completely flown over your head and instead you’re stuck in a place of justifying your decisions, which is understandable, but you still seem to be completely ignoring basic things and you keep coming back to name calling. I still haven’t…

Wow. Just... wow.

Did you even read and absorb what I said? I’m fine without ripping my uterus out. Even if I “ripped it out” I would remember the frustrations about it like societal shame about being a female that wanted sex, feeling like I had to take on the burden in the case of a pregnancy scare without necessarily…

Ah, I see how we now do not reply to what I said and change the direction to Transmen. Ok.

So I spent a large number of years being called a lesbian while growing up in a very conservative part of the US. Most of my early experiences were with other girls/women, but “lesbian” didn’t seem right to me, but I couldn’t say…

I refused to have children with one of my ex’s when I realized he couldn’t even take care of himself. I had no hope he was going to help take care of another human if he couldn’t deal with his own crap. Some men do get it though, but it’s not necessarily on the “normal” life path that they end up at that place of…

I currently am in a relationship with a man that has custody of his children. While he’s living and experiencing some of the limits that working mothers encounter, it’s interesting that he doesn’t necessarily understand that’s what’s happening some of the time. He feels frustrated he has to keep a job that gives him…

A post menopausal woman does not in fact have all the same concerns as a pre-menopausal woman, but a pre-menopausal woman will eventually have the same concerns as a menopausal woman and a menopasual woman will likely understand the life experiences of a pre-menopasual woman more than a transwoman. A woman that has a…

Funny you mention school shootings. I was in high school during Columbine where, afterwards, every single student was indeed treated as if we were all ready to carry guns and were no longer allowed to have normal backpacks and wear clothes as we desired and everyone had to have tucked in shirts all the time. Have fun…

It’s funny that you word it that way because this whole thing is about defining words - mostly man/woman and male/female and how those relate to... science (I find it curious that you completely skipped explaining how humans reproduce since you seem to think that knowledge is somehow too elementary for this…

But the issue is so complicated that you can’t just say they commit suicide because the kid was born with the wrong genitalia. Some people that identify as “trans” seem to have resolution of their discomfort just by actually living whatever they envision their gender to be, WITHOUT surgery even being involved. Guess…

You do realize rape is a hazy line, right? And that there’s people that dance on it all of the time and that’s why rape cases are often not 100% clear and like the instance of a random stranger breaking into a home and violating someone. So if you want to get caught up on the words “rape” vs. “coerce” vs. whatever…

You would be incorrect about a huge amount of your assumptions, but nice try. I’ve had a transwoman in my home questioning me & asking why my closest didn’t appear a certain way if I was a “woman”. I’ve found myself to be the only or one of only a couple women again and again over all of my later schooling and my…

It wasn’t a deliberate action, but it was a lack of absorbing the fact the child had different needs when entering that part of life. This child is having some discomfort and issues saying “Dad, can we get a trashcan in the bathroom?” Does that not seem somewhat relevant in this whole situation that the child is…

People are being presented with this idea about changing genitalia before they can even mentally grasp what they are giving up though. They are being presented this in a world where the rights to abortion are still very restricted. 12 year version of me would have run for an option to have a penis and give up a uterus…

Yeah... just going with what feels right for you is part of the game. If it feels right for you and it doesn’t for them, it’s a way of figuring out you might not be compatible pretty early on. When I met my current guy, I couldn’t wait to text him after our first (fairly long) date. He was equally excited, so there…

What does it mean to be a “dude”?

There’s been posts here on Jezebel recently about people fighting for abortion rights and explaining what it means in detail to be 6 weeks pregnant. You can’t pretend that kind of environment doesn’t have any affect on someone that’s young and just getting to a point where their body would allow them to become…

I keep trying to being this back to biology because it’s too simplistic to pretend that biological sex is completely divorced from this whole concept and how we even got into some of these situations and discussions we’re dealing with. Women do take on a large burden in the process of producing our future generations.…

I am a woman and I have in fact had those thoughts! I thought about having a penis since I was a small child. My breasts have never been large, but I’ve always hated feeling constricted by bras and preferred to not wear them. Why should I if a man doesn’t have to? Women have those feelings and thoughts! At work I…

The definition of what it means to be a male or woman seems so CORE to this discussion, yet it’s incredibly skipped over and ambiguous despite the huge amount of reading I’ve done on these topics. That makes the discussion hard when this whole thing based on it and no one can really point me to what we’re talking…

Please look into the idea of the “cotton ceiling”. There’s also terms like “bleeders”/”breeders” that get thrown around. Those exist beyond the internet.

I personally have a lot more respect for people willing to be open about their personal life journey vs. pretending and hiding (and not just about THIS topic, but in…