you know, I just couldn’t get into it.
I was quite young though. Maybe I should give it another go
Wait just a second. Where does Japan fall on this gender identity in locker rooms thing? Can I walk into a locker room in Japan and claim to be a woman? I’m in Takamatsu for 2 weeks, and this information may come in handy.
“If you want a detailed analysis of how Dr. McHugh has misrepresented data, rigged studies, left out significant details in his research, and is nothing more than a poorly regarded fringe element in his own field, you can read about it here, here, here, here, here, and here. No secular medical or mental-health organization agrees with him. Even his own (former) department denounced his stance in testimony before the Maryland Senate. Court cases looking at transgender medical issues have found his work unpersuasive.”
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Hey there!
I’m expecting the federal courts to say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT people - a good thing, IMO. Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin are already specified. I’m not a lawyer or political strategist, but that’s my guess. We’ll see if Congress will act to amend the wording, meanwhile it will grind it’s way through the judicial system I guess. At least that’s my understanding.
Unfortunately, both sides are good at this. We tend to look at the worst example of human rights abuses to make our case. Some of it’s honestly trying to look for a the best analogy, but it’s easy to conflate things. As a Mormon, I understand a bit about religious discrimination since I have ancestors who were forced to leave everything they owned, and who buried a wife or children crossing the plains in an attempt to escape religious persecution. When Christian Conservatives in the South refused to vote for Mitt because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a Mormon, it pinched my heart a little. Still, to say that my background gives me an understanding of the Holocaust would be a HUGE leap, and it would understandably insult most Jews. Knowing that women sometimes face discrimination doesn’t mean I have a personal understanding of what it’s like to be Black. Similarly, LGBT rights is really it’s own issue, but as humans we tend to categorize things to make sense of them. We often look for the worst abuses to make our point, particularly when it’s something we’re passionate about. You know all of this, but that’s how everybody who disagrees ends up being called Hitler or a racist in internet debates.
@ research - We’re really only in our infancy in understanding the neurology behind human behavior. That part is very exciting because we’re seeing such huge leaps forward in our lifetimes. I probably shouldn’t be so cynical about the gender studies side of it. My best friend is a politically liberal Women’s Studies and Religion person who teaches Ethics and I’m better for having her in my life. I can only say that if one of my kids tells me they are studying “feminist glaciology” I’m going to pull the purse strings. Ha! The titles of some of these dissertations and academic articles sometimes get my eyes rolling at the needless complexity of the wording alone.
Dr. Paul McHugh might very well be a wack job, I’ve no idea, but it’s going to take a little more than a blog post, slate and the Huffington post to convince me that the Harvard educated former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital is indeed nuts.
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By posting that quote and link, I did not mean to imply Dr. McHugh is either a “whack job” or “nuts.” (To my knowledge, he is neither.) My intention was to demonstrate that his opinion concerning the mental status of trans individuals lies well outside the current scientific consensus on the subject.
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Ahhhhhhhh, I gotcha now.
Maybe if you were Japanese. Could you even tell the difference once undressed?
Wait… wha… I’m confused, did this thread end?
I have one last question. Push, do you still call them Kroc Rows?