Transgender America
Newsweek’s report on transgenderism in America.
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The Right Kind of Dead Woman (Not Any Woman Will Do)
“I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If
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Coming Out
“Transgender Canadians are coming out at younger ages than ever before. Support groups for transgender teens report growing memberships, and are sprouting up beyond the major cities in areas such as Kitchener, Ont., and the Niagara region. One by one, school boards are amending their human rights policies to include gender identity… In recent years,
The Hidden Costs of of Living in a Hypermasculine Culture
“The trouble with manhood, American-style, is that it is maintained at the expense of every man’s feminine side — the frantically repressed Inner Wussy — and the demonization of the feminine and the gay wherever we see them.“ I do love that even in an article about how we demonize the feminine, the feminine is
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Gender Testing of Female Atheletes
Are you a boy or a girl? Flash presentation. You know, I always wondered, do/did they ever test people competing as *male* atheletes to make sure they’re *really* men, or has this always been some kind of wacked-out, let’s make sure the girls are protected macho thing?
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When Did You First Realize You Were A Girl? (or Boy?)
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Jed’s about gender identity. He actually asks *how* you know you’re a girl/boy, but I’m also quite interested in when? When did you know?
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