My Thoughts
This topic has become ground zero, as it were, for the transmisic* community these days. As of this writing, twenty-five states ban trans students from participation in school-sanctioned sports; seventeen of them for all grades including college. Yet another lawsuit has been filed by the attention-starved Riley Gaines. This sort of “breaking news” appears widely. […]
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In the vilification-laden anonymous comment sites of social media, it has long been a staple belief that the very existence of gender identity is an affront to common sense, and therefore its elimination a reasonable subject for public debate. In that venue it is mere low-level intellectual noise, but not when it becomes a prominent
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“I think, therefore I am.” René Descartes, often called the father of modern philosophy (according to Wikipedia anyway), wrote these famous words in an attempt to be certain of his existence. Later thinkers typically define existence through experience, but its meaning still has to be analyzed. While I doubt that many transgender people consult philosophy
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Transgender individuals “are” the gender they identify as: a trans woman is and always has been a trans woman, and hence a woman, whether she was aware of it or not. (And mutatis mutandi for trans men). This should have been understood since the publication of “The Transsexual Phenomenon” by Dr. Harry Benjamin in 1966.
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The main point of this blog is to comment on topics other than writing. For now, just a few more details about who I am. After getting my PhD at Stanford, I went to MIT for a post-doc, and fortunately my advisor moved to Stanford the following summer, sparing me another Boston winter. From there
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