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( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Once upon a time, and a very good time it may have been, there was a young mother coming along the sidewalk in Sacramento, pushing her year old infant in a stroller. Passing strangers would greet the young mother, telling her what
09-05-10
Word count: 160
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
The Politicians And The Medical Establishment Fudge Science To Appease Abrahamic Religions!
Manchester, England. In England the National Health Service (NHS) defines sex as the biological sex that you were born with. It is determined by the sex or
09-03-10
Word count: 937
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, the best of all possible worlds and the worse. It was politics as usual on Planet Earth.
The President, an articulate speaker of prefabricated speeches, finds that words do not
08-29-10
Word count: 177
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Palenville, NY, USA. Apparently there actually is a transgender prime directive. It basically is "thou shall never ever ever mis-gender a transgender identified person. Let's examine exactly how this is applied in the real world. By mis-gender
08-25-10
Word count: 212
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Meet me at the crossroads where psychology engages neuroscience and biology. Join me at the sharp edge where cultural anthropology and sociology confronts the higher maths and scientific methodology.
There are no pristine univers
08-22-10
Word count: 149
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Lancaster, PA, USA. Somebody needs to check Pennsylvania’s water supply. Perhaps it’s something those guys are drinking, or maybe smoking, that explains the faux pas outbreak spreading in the Keystone State. Either way, it’s threatening to be
08-22-10
Word count: 168
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. It is always difficult when discussing humanity — Homo Sapiens as a species — to separate what is biologically driven from what is culturally imposed.
There are genetic and hormonal differences between boys and girls. There a
08-15-10
Word count: 93
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Those of us who learned to pass as male, who learned to playact so we could meet however uneasily the expectations of our parents and grandparents, our priests and ministers, our friends and our culture, somehow survived our less
08-08-10
Word count: 173
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not one of the most beautiful women in the world, but then who is?
Forty years ago, when I was a sweet young thing, the only olive skinned women on the cultural radar were Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
I was neither.
Medi
08-01-10
Word count: 105
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Women on women, girls on girls, boys on girls and women. Around and around and around and around. What is the default setting for human female sexuality?
Suppose the permanent default position for human female sexuality is bisexu
07-25-10
Word count: 160
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. I remember when mother subscribed to Sports Illustrated [N1]. It was something all the other young “boys” were eager to read.
My father was rather geeky — a self-taught amateur radio ham and a broadcast radio and television
07-21-10
Word count: 148
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
New Delhi, India. Nanotechnology's potential to improve public health will be maximised only with a conducive environment. There are around five billion people in the developing world who could benefit from the use of nanotechnology in key sectors
07-19-10
Word count: 128
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. The high priestesses of gender theory produce impenetrable academic bulls well ornamented with academic abstruseness meant to distract the reader from the emptiness of their pretty papers.
Those enlightened few, trapped high in t
07-18-10
Word count: 127
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. In the world of the gender theory, there is no greater fashion expert than a professional drag queen, as they should be. Their performance quality, and the tips they might receive, depends on the theatrical perfection of their app
07-14-10
Word count: 191
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Chico, CA, USA. Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day. Rich nations have long assured poor nations that they, too, would one day be
07-13-10
Word count: 148
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Sharon and I are married. Not in the eyes of the Commonwealth of Virginia, not in the eyes of the Government of the United States, and certainly not in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service or various religious sects.
If some
07-11-10
Word count: 169
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Western Australia, AUS. The rescue of round the world sailor, Abby Sunderland, has been making the headlines recently, attracting the usual debate concerning whether we would or should pay for her rescue or not.
Some time ago Yann Elies, competing
07-05-10
Word count: 163
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Fashion began as soon as humanity realized we were naked and collectively decided we needed to do something about that. Soon afterwards, being nothing if not curious primates, we noticed that some leaves were softer, some furs, mo
07-04-10
Word count: 135
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Active participation in the left-liberal wing of the Democratic Party is not a diagnostic criterion for Transsexuality. Men and women born transsexual do not enter this world with a lifetime membership in the marching proletariat.
06-27-10
Word count: 143
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
London, UK. Rape is deployed as a weapon of war in countries throughout the world, from Bosnia to Sudan, Peru to Tibet. [R1] Rape includes lack of consent to sex as well as provision of sex to avoid harm and obtain basic necessities. The Rome Statu
06-26-10
Word count: 162
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Somewhere, Planet Earth. The number of years I have done research and been involved and written about issues surrounding transsexuality have given me a perspective on the whole issue that can only come with years, decades, of involvement and obser
06-25-10
Word count: 156
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. If nothing else, in any given year, the world of publicity seeking gender theorists provides us a plethora of self-serving literature discussing the wide, wide, wide, wide world of post-modern transgenderism.
What their self-pop
06-24-10
Word count: 125
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Cell by cell, inside our deep structured consciousness, the human brain readily adapts, the best it can, to the world in which it lives. None of us choose the society, the flesh, or even the sex to which we are born.
Most of us,
06-20-10
Word count: 169
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Here, at the legendary Center For Hatefulness, hard science is our weapon of choice. Alas, but we are taken to task for the spitefulness of science in the matter of arbitrary social gendering.
The previous sentence is obviously a
06-13-10
Word count: 124
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Hong Kong, China. Robert F. Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was shot and killed 42 years ago this week. The killing brought a tragic end to his campaign for the 1968 Democratic nomination for the presidency. In the manner of famous peo
06-12-10
Word count: 147
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Victoria, AUS. Why can't a woman be more like a man? Henry Higgins posed the question in My Fair Lady and ever since Viagra began earning Pfizer more than $US1 billion ($1.2 billion) per year, the big pharmaceutical companies have been asking it, t
06-11-10
Word count: 171
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Texas, USA. Predictable in that we have had this back and forth since the mid 1980s.
I went to the meeting of a "gender" group out in Santa Monica. It was the activist in me. I wanted to see what was happening and a friend told me abou
06-10-10
Word count: 184
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Irvine, CA, USA. A culture's icons are a window onto its soul. Few would disagree that, in the culture of molecular biology that dominated much of the life sciences for the last third of the 20th century, the dominant icon was the double helix. In
06-06-10
Word count: 170
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. The socially conservative right, or, as the progressive wing of the Democratic Party might refer to them, Crypto-Fascist Republi-Nazis, often uses men and women born transsexual as a stalking horse for whatever societal changes ar
06-06-10
Word count: 141
( Opinion / Global Warning )
In Arlington and Flanders Fields,
At Gettysburg and Antietam,
On the Plain of Jars and Normandy Beach,
And in the waters around the Arizona,
Americans have died, buried and forgotten
By politicians and academics who seek
Grander colors in the
05-31-10
Word count: 123
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Indianapolis, IN, USA. Just so there's no confusion, I want to make my two main points right up front.
First, I don't believe that religion and science must compete with one another. Second, those who disagree with my first point call me an accom
05-31-10
Word count: 166
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. How do the gay rights organizations and gender activists spend their time and our money after Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is repealed, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is passed with language covering transsexuality, Civi
05-30-10
Word count: 203
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Meadowbrook, Queensland, AUS. I can’t believe I’m the only person in the universe to be regularly incensed by the shopping experience.
We’re used to car salesmen and real estate agents taking liberties with the truth as they try to separate
05-27-10
Word count: 226
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Palenville, NY, USA. Yes, after a lifetime of feminist consciousness (well since I was nine years old anyway) I was told the other day I am no longer a feminist because I reject the victimhood hierarchy that passes for feminism among so many younge
05-24-10
Word count: 161
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Waltham, MA, USA. Give me your tired, your poor, your Phase II failures ... Well, OK, to be honest, I'm not sure I want your tired or your poor, and besides, The Statue of Liberty has that pretty well covered. But I am sure that I want your Phase I
05-23-10
Word count: 223
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Here in the USA, girls have a fondness for sparkly pink unicorns. I suspect a young girls fondness for sparkling soft stuffed animals is a human universal, but perhaps it is simply a transcultural hog butcher’s social construct
05-23-10
Word count: 203
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Brisbane, QLD, AUS. Classical Athens is famous for what is arguably the most fully developed democracy of premodern times and for its cultural revolution, which helped lay the foundations for the arts, literature and sciences of the ancient and mod
05-22-10
Word count: 164
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. In the eyes of many transgender activists, at least those that loudly populate the blogs and oft-times fill the TS-Si comment sections with adolescent cant, women born transsexual are their Arch-Enemy, the Great Satan incarnate, B
05-18-10
Word count: 147
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Indianapolis, IN, USA. In case you had any doubt, the last nail was just placed in the coffin of intelligent design (ID).
And, in case you had any doubt, that last nail joins many others that have been in place for quite some time.
The latest att
05-17-10
Word count: 130
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Out here on the internet, terrorists roam, taking advantage of western democratic principles to plot their boys' club attacks against women and our liberty. They force themselves upon us with violent, hostile aggression, demanding
05-16-10
Word count: 148
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Wollongong, NSW, Aus. When Nina Funnell was bashed, strangled and narrowly escaped rape, she thought telling her story was the most responsible thing she could do. What she was not prepared for was mockery.
An anonymous online group posted her pic
05-15-10
Word count: 180
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Somewhere, Planet Earth. The thing about nostalgia is that it’s not what it used to be.
The town in which I grew up was host to a very large USAF base and we entertained a large contingent of US airman. There were no aeroplanes at the base it wa
05-14-10
Word count: 155
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Sydney, NSW, AUS. There is nothing quite so flattering as receiving hate mail. Over the years I’ve had my fair share of it. While many writers detest hate mail, I deal with it by trying to revel in the knowledge that people actually read my work
05-13-10
Word count: 230
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Texas, USA. Or, in the case of people who have been post-op for a number of years, what is wrong with having been transsexual?
Why did you get a sex change operation?
Because I was transsexual.
Does this mean you are still transsexual?
Nope. Si
05-12-10
Word count: 187
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. The overly embellished sensibility of Drag Queens and, to a lesser extent, Crossdressers is as far distant from the lives of mothers, housewives, and working women as the Colonial Puritans are from the legions of pan make-uped men
05-09-10
Word count: 159
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Melbourne, VIC, AUS. Every person on the planet is affected by masculinity in some shape or form.
This is why getting masculinity right is so important.
If we get it wrong, everything falls apart.
You might have noticed that everything seems to
05-08-10
Word count: 195
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Fairfax, VA, USA. A recent report, The Impact of Media Images on Body Image and Behaviours: A Summary of the Scientific Evidence, places the issue of digitally enhanced images back in the spotlight. And it doesn’t look pretty.
According to this
05-05-10
Word count: 148
( Opinion / Guest Columns )
Somewhere, Planet Earth. I cleared out some boxes of “stuff” the other day and came across a pretransition picture of me. I was not particularly concerned about it since I simply look like a younger version of me now, probably why I did not des
05-03-10
Word count: 181
( Opinion / Global Warning )
Fairfax, VA, USA. There are certain things I know that will set off comment if I write about them.
My list probably overlaps with the Lady GaGa list but they are not identical. Her current performances are on the stage or on video, mine on the wri
05-02-10
Word count: 136
( Opinion / Looking Glass )
Fairfax, VA, USA. Whoever we were and whatever we did before transition, the tasks we now face go beyond the bromides of I can get on with my life and I can just be who I am or These days, I can just be.
Children are out there asking questions th
04-27-10
Word count: 179
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