I remember when she went to jail, and she completely shut down emotionally. She said she was afraid to use the bathroom because she was afraid the guards would film her. Now I wonder if she was having PTSD and did not have the bandwidth to process her memories at that time. 

I don’t know how true that is about the schools’ religious affiliations. The one Hilton went to was run by CEDU, who operated a ton of these schools in the Western part of the country. They were based on the ideas from Synanon, which is a cult that spun off of Alcoholics Anonymous that utilized all manner of emotional…

The only unwritten rule is I am always right, you are always “look at this guy!”

I know what sex is, but you could please explain to me what gender is? The only definitions I’ve heard either involved 1950s stereotypes (“if you like wearing dresses, you’re a girl”) or are circular and thus meaningless (“gender is the gender you identify as”).

You’re right - I don’t get to decide who is a woman. Biology does.

Society has always hated women who stand up for themselves, especially if they want to do something as unladylike as - gasp! - play sport professionally. This is just the usual garden-variety misogyny.

There is a reason that men and women have separate facilities, sports, safe spaces, etc. It is because women and men are biologically different and women are at a very real physical disadvantage when it comes to pretty much all aspects of living on earth with men.

I’m disappointed that a feminist website won’t even consider a discussion about why many feminist have legitimate concerns about this.

As a former track athlete, I feel like at some point it will be pretty important to be able to discuss the difficulty that cisgender women will have competing against trans women who opt to not undergo hormones. I’m absolutely against the policing of trans and intersex bodies; at the same time, I recognize that a…

Why should women stop caring about sport? (It’s only women this is being aimed at - no one tells men to stop caring about sport. Trans men aren’t dominating men’s leagues.) Professional sport is a path out of poverty for many people, particularly PoC. But yeah, who cares? Female athletes should just “get a life” and…

I read about half the article but my eyes started to glaze over and unfocus, but the gist I got was TERFs bad, TERFs mad, so yay. Maybe it would help if the article said what TERF actually stood for, but I dunno.

These are serious questions, no sarcasm - is no one here at least slightly concerned by the fact that there are so many transgender athletes succeeding in female sports, yet we aren’t seeing the same happen in men’s sports?

“We apologise for our previous gaffe, just tired as we’re covering the weekend shift, cant believe its Bloody Sunday already.”

There’s plenty of demand from the people there, I’ll concede it’s not a majority of votes in the last referendum, we’ll see if a hard brexit changes that. But even so, the UK’s referendum was highly flawed— and I mean on a procedural level, not even counting the fact that independent-minded sentiment in the region was…

For those not up on their twentieth-century history, much like Amazon’s customer service staff, here’s that sentence with American historical events:

Ireland isn’t part of the UK

This is just one of the reasons I decided not to have children. I could see where that life was headed, and I knew the resentment would be unbearable. I know only a handful of couples who seem to truly have egalitarian marriages, and who knows who’s really doing all the work, inclduing the mental labor of tracking…

There’s also the question of whether you want to be (and now are) complicit in the misuse and misappropriation of these terms.