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July 2023

July 08, 2023

Trans Kids and Data Analysis: Understanding the “Gender Affirming Care is Lifesaving” Claim

Yes, I'm going there: it's time to address the "transkid" issue -- hopefully with an...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

The end of “boys who wear dresses”?

What does it mean to be "gender-creative"? To be "gender expansive"? To be "gender non-conforming"?...

May 2022

May 17, 2022

Yes, you should object to saying “they”

So . . . turns out it's been a while since I've published a blog...

February 2021

February 22, 2021

Why the Equality Act is actually much worse than the Bostock Court ruling

Remember back last summer when the Supreme Court determined that, by parsing the Civil Rights...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

“Jury refuses to protect 7 year old from forced sex-change” – what’s up with that?

Here's the story: Divorced parents Jeffrey Younger and Anne Georgulas have been at odds over...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

The story of the “third sex” bathrooms that . . . weren’t

What, you ask, is the "third sex" or "third gender"? It depends. In Oregon, it's...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Guest Post #2: Transgendered Military Members: Who’d Have Thought This Could Be So Complicated?

Hi there! Jane the Actuary asked some of us to fill in for her during...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

You won’t believe what I have to say in this post

I am outraged, outraged, I tell you, at the fact that Donald Trump seemed to...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

The power of LGBT

The other day, in the e-mailed news, my employer boasted of being named a "Best...

April 20, 2017

Gender-theorying school uniforms?

The above picture is from our trip to London last summer, where it seemed like,...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

About that transgender wrestler

In the news over the weekend: Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old junior, biologically a girl but...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

What about Caster Semenya?

She won the gold in the women's 800 meter race Friday, with a time more...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

Slate author: no such thing as a “male body”

No surprise, I guess, but a Slate author, Chase Strangio, went further than I've yet seen...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

How do you identify?

Transsexual -- what an archaic term! How quickly we've moved from the notion that a...

May 15, 2016

The transgender locker room “guidance”, power, and punishment

Here's an article, one of many, about the Obama administration's decree on transgender students: "Obama...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Another what-if on locker rooms

Look, we all get it: an individual who has transitioned is in a position where...

April 14, 2016

A “would you rather” bathroom wars question

Short and simple: Women: Would you rather be changing, in a women's locker room in a...

April 01, 2016

“Bathroom bills” and the refusal to compromise

They're everywhere, right now: legislation that either gives individuals the absolute right to use the...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Parking a link: sex-change regret

Presented for comment: from The Federalist, "Trouble In Transtopia: Murmurs Of Sex Change Regret." I'd...