Back when sexual orientation was a bigger deal, before the US Supreme Court recognized the rights to same-sex sex and same-sex marriage, one of the bigoted claims against gays and lesbians was that we were trying to recruit children into our "diseased" lifestyle ( Read more... )

No, that's likely to get you stoned by both mobs.

I'm becoming entirely fatigued by the online (both social media and mass media) fights over the definitions of "sex" and "gender" and related words like pronouns and other related concepts. I'm glad the people I know in real life don't fight about this stuff ( Read more... )

damn ( Read more... )

so much better than The Piano, so much better,

she's not accepting her gender restrictions,

I've thought of myself as an ally of the transgender community since the 1980s, but I haven't studied transgender issues in depth much until more recently, now that we have this powerful conservative backlash happening all over the US.

This morning the NYT clued me in to the phenomenon of detransitioning, which includes people who transition back ( Read more... )

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/growing-up-trans/Read more... )

Online activism at its worst is people telling people to stop following people on Twitter. Yes, create an online echo chamber in which nobody ever disagrees with you, because challenging any of your opinions is considered "transphobic".

In the real world, there are gradations of acceptance and tolerance, and people who do not (yet?) share your ( Read more... )

"In some cases this is simply a matter of referring to a set of ideas that has very real existence, even if the qualities and phenomena they purport to describe do not."

-- The Myth of ContinentsI've been running into this problem for many years now, that I refer to categories or descriptors like "race" even though they are fake, because so many ( Read more... )

I don't track my sleep, but it seems 5 hours is a typical amount for me if I don't take sleeping pills.  Sometimes I also take afternoon naps, sometimes I go back to sleep before the day begins.  I feel better than I did last night -- was happy to speak with K before I fell asleep ( Read more... )