1. Vote for Penn!
2. This makes me even sadder that optional gender-neutral housing at Brown never worked out. Hopefully it will someday.
And some of these parents, under a doctor’s supervision, have even begun to administer hormone blockers to prevent the arrival of secondary sex characteristics until a “gender variant” child is old enough to make permanent choices.
This is where I start to hesitate. What are the long-term consequences of hormone blockers? This reminds me a little of the Ashley Treatment, which is not a good association in my mind. Well-intentioned, but possibly not the best thing to do?
students will often use gender-neutral pronouns like “ze” and “hir”
Good luck with that. It's been tried before, and it's never stuck.
But today many students who identify as trans are seeking not simply to change their sex but to create an identity outside or between established genders — they may refuse to use any gender pronouns whatsoever or take a gender-neutral name but never modify their bodies chemically or surgically. These students are also considered part of the trans community, though they are known as either gender nonconforming or genderqueer rather than transmen or transmale.
I'm all for expanding the gender binary. Other cultures have done it. But I suppose my attitude is just a by-product of my indoctrination at that liberal brainwashing factory of a college I attended. One too many anthropology courses, I suppose.
In the first week of September, he found out that his roommates had complained to the college’s freshman housing director about being asked to share their rooms with a man. They wanted Rey to find somewhere else to live. According to Dorothy Denburg, the dean who spoke to Rey about the situation, these young women were disturbed when Rey told them on the first day “that he was a transboy and wanted to be referred to by male pronouns.”
One of the reasons we need optional gender-neutral housing in dorms.
Part of the couple’s sangfroid is generational — she and Rey see themselves as genderqueer rather than gay. For them, sexual orientation is fluid. Like some of their peers, Melissa and Rey want to be — and sometimes imagine they already are — part of the first generation to transcend gender.
As long as they realize that plenty of people are still perfectly happy identifying with traditional gender roles. And don't look down on those who do.
While many gender-nonconforming students don’t have “top surgery” in their freshman years, they may still struggle with their colleges’ medical services, not because they want specialized treatments but because they want health care that is sensitive to their new identities. As one gender-noncomforming student complained to me, he hated that health services insisted on treating him “like a girl.”
They're in the medical field. They're not gonna lie about your anatomy. But maybe some sort of staff orientation about gender identity wouldn't hurt.
“gender identity” was recently dropped from the 2007 Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA.
Wait, what? It was in there, but then they took it back out? The hell.
Earlier at lunch, Melissa joked about whether they were even in a relationship, “I’m not sure: Rey doesn’t do labels.”
Heh. I liked the guy until that point, but people who "don't do labels" tend to piss me off.
“Some transmen want to be seen as men — they want to be accepted as born men,” he said. “I want to be accepted as a transman — my brain is not gendered.["]
Well, no, it's not. The word 'gender' refers to societal constructs that correspond -- to varying degrees -- to physical/biological states. Not the biological state itself.
3. An interesting piece about atheism and raising children (via Friendly Atheist).
I really like the author's approach. The more I think about it, when/if I have kids, I'd want to expose them to as many different religions/beliefs as possible. Go visit different churches, temples, etc., and discuss them all. Excluding the more extreme, fundamentalist groups. Children don't need to be exposed to fundamentalism. Churches should be given movie ratings. I'm not sure if Westboro would be R or NC-17. Any votes?
4. Kansas strikes again.
5. "There is no way that modern humans, I believe, could have evolved from a species like Neanderthal," Sawyer said. "They're certainly a cousin - they're human - but they're one of those strange little offshoots."
Does anyone believe humans evolved from Neanderthals? I wasn't aware that anyone who knew anything about paleoanthropology still thought that.
2. This makes me even sadder that optional gender-neutral housing at Brown never worked out. Hopefully it will someday.
And some of these parents, under a doctor’s supervision, have even begun to administer hormone blockers to prevent the arrival of secondary sex characteristics until a “gender variant” child is old enough to make permanent choices.
This is where I start to hesitate. What are the long-term consequences of hormone blockers? This reminds me a little of the Ashley Treatment, which is not a good association in my mind. Well-intentioned, but possibly not the best thing to do?
students will often use gender-neutral pronouns like “ze” and “hir”
Good luck with that. It's been tried before, and it's never stuck.
But today many students who identify as trans are seeking not simply to change their sex but to create an identity outside or between established genders — they may refuse to use any gender pronouns whatsoever or take a gender-neutral name but never modify their bodies chemically or surgically. These students are also considered part of the trans community, though they are known as either gender nonconforming or genderqueer rather than transmen or transmale.
I'm all for expanding the gender binary. Other cultures have done it. But I suppose my attitude is just a by-product of my indoctrination at that liberal brainwashing factory of a college I attended. One too many anthropology courses, I suppose.
In the first week of September, he found out that his roommates had complained to the college’s freshman housing director about being asked to share their rooms with a man. They wanted Rey to find somewhere else to live. According to Dorothy Denburg, the dean who spoke to Rey about the situation, these young women were disturbed when Rey told them on the first day “that he was a transboy and wanted to be referred to by male pronouns.”
One of the reasons we need optional gender-neutral housing in dorms.
Part of the couple’s sangfroid is generational — she and Rey see themselves as genderqueer rather than gay. For them, sexual orientation is fluid. Like some of their peers, Melissa and Rey want to be — and sometimes imagine they already are — part of the first generation to transcend gender.
As long as they realize that plenty of people are still perfectly happy identifying with traditional gender roles. And don't look down on those who do.
While many gender-nonconforming students don’t have “top surgery” in their freshman years, they may still struggle with their colleges’ medical services, not because they want specialized treatments but because they want health care that is sensitive to their new identities. As one gender-noncomforming student complained to me, he hated that health services insisted on treating him “like a girl.”
They're in the medical field. They're not gonna lie about your anatomy. But maybe some sort of staff orientation about gender identity wouldn't hurt.
“gender identity” was recently dropped from the 2007 Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA.
Wait, what? It was in there, but then they took it back out? The hell.
Earlier at lunch, Melissa joked about whether they were even in a relationship, “I’m not sure: Rey doesn’t do labels.”
Heh. I liked the guy until that point, but people who "don't do labels" tend to piss me off.
“Some transmen want to be seen as men — they want to be accepted as born men,” he said. “I want to be accepted as a transman — my brain is not gendered.["]
Well, no, it's not. The word 'gender' refers to societal constructs that correspond -- to varying degrees -- to physical/biological states. Not the biological state itself.
3. An interesting piece about atheism and raising children (via Friendly Atheist).
I really like the author's approach. The more I think about it, when/if I have kids, I'd want to expose them to as many different religions/beliefs as possible. Go visit different churches, temples, etc., and discuss them all. Excluding the more extreme, fundamentalist groups. Children don't need to be exposed to fundamentalism. Churches should be given movie ratings. I'm not sure if Westboro would be R or NC-17. Any votes?
4. Kansas strikes again.
5. "There is no way that modern humans, I believe, could have evolved from a species like Neanderthal," Sawyer said. "They're certainly a cousin - they're human - but they're one of those strange little offshoots."
Does anyone believe humans evolved from Neanderthals? I wasn't aware that anyone who knew anything about paleoanthropology still thought that.
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