Ms. Jenner. Please have a seat for just a few minutes.

Were it not for your previous apologism, we might not even be in this position in the first place. Maybe next time you’ll consider something other than your own personal economic priorities before declaring political allegiances. Read more

Is chess typically a professional esport? Read more

I don’t mean to sound incendiary with this question, but is this supposed to be some sort of silver lining, that ‘some states’ will be okay for trans kids and other states will just fuck them?

Seems like trans kids in those states that would otherwise be fucked have a pretty compelling case for federal standards to… Read more

I’m not sure if you’re intentionally trying to be hurtful?

You’re the one saying ‘this is not the time-and-place to have the discussion you want to have,’ even while somehow apparently acknowledging the problems that the erasure of transgender identity causes in legal representation? How can you unconditionally defend… Read more

because gay rights are not a signifier for trans rights. most gay kids I know in schools don’t have to worry about using a particular bathroom, but trans kids might.

the root cause that brought us here, which i’m only pointing out is worth acknowledging, is the erasure of trans legal priorities by the casual allowance… Read more

I’m saying the root cause that brought us to this point was the willingness to let ‘gay rights’ stand for ‘trans rights.’ That is no longer tenable. Read more

I get your point, but you don’t seem to be willing to concede anything at all. Whaaaaatever. That’s Kinja for you. Read more

I would prefer the article attempt to distinguish between the two in this case, yes.

And, as you acknowledge, it would not damage the article or the community at all in doing so. So the difference here is your willingness to let bygones-be-bygones just because ‘its an honest mistake’ when honestly that doesn’t do very… Read more

No I’m directly stating that the state of the fight for trans equality is in this precarious position because of the trivial nature with which most of our allies approach the idea of conflating ‘trans rights’ with ‘gay rights.’

As a trans woman, I feel like when I talk to people about ‘gay rights’ they often know WAY… Read more

Jezebel’s copy, not quoted copy. Read more

that you can’t see how directly related they are is the problem, not the other way around. Read more

No, I’m pointing out that it’s all to easy for our allies to gloss over that trans rights are unique and nuanced in some ways and to paint the fight for ‘gay rights’ as the same as ‘trans rights’ is irresponsible.

Yes, there is overlap, but consider the implications if we allow conflation like this to spillover into… Read more

That’s sort of my point — why can’t we hold the line for trans folx in anticipation of the backlash against the LGBTQ community in general? Diluting that trans people have political priciples that are uniquely exploited isn’t fair to the reality many trans folks experience, which is that we are often a political… Read more

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I’m really tired of this conflation of ‘trans’ and ‘gay’ rights. Not all gay people are trans, not all trans people are gay. Conflating them in this way minimalizes the distinctions in policy that would uniquely benefit trans* folks, but Jezebel just keeps on fucking up the narrative. Read more

Stop conflating ‘gay rights’ with ‘trans rights.’ gay people and trans people are not the same. That Jezebel continues to fuck this up makes it easier for trans rights to be consistently overlooked by most of the LGBT community. Read more

totally! part of the problem is that nobody’s ever willing to consider the really difficult nature of choosing to have bottom surgery, or which surgeries someone would choose to have.

I feel like if more people understood that it’s something many of my brothers and sisters have aspired to our entire lives, they’d be… Read more

I really don’t know what happened here. This is supposed to say: “Procedures which use colonic tissue to construct vaginal membranes”
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Except in this thread, where you seemed to offer an unsolicited condemnation of trans women who agonize over their dream pussies. Read more

Sure, you can *have* an opinion, but you don’t really get the right to project that opinion onto the surgical intervention decisions of other transgender patients.

Nobody, realistically, believes in the *perfect* pussy. And I would venture to bet that their counselors would probably advise them of such a potential… Read more