TS-Si Op-Ed Pages
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Springfield, VA, USA. Society (the women and men around us) has always been more comfortable if its members fall within certain known, established patterns: this is how we dress, this is what we say, this is what we believe, this is how we look.
These are the standards by which a society defines itself and separates from the non-members (the other societies that may live around it — the proverbial they and them your mother warned you about).
Throughout human history, every soc... |
July 1th, 2008
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Lancaster, PA, DC, USA. Independence Day is our leading national holiday. It has no equal or rival in its prominence and popularity. But maybe it should.
To be sure, the Fourth of July commemorates a crucial moment in national history; that decisive point in time in which the Second Continental Congress declared, formally and publicly, American independence from Great Britain. That day together with the written Declaration of Independence itself comprise the single most familiar da... |
June 28th, 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. On the last day of the court's term in the year twenty-oh-eight, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment [to the Constitution of the United States] protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. [N1] From the uproar, you’d have thought that Roberts, Scalia, et al had outlawed Marxism on the university ... |
June 27th, 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. Early in fetal development, before even a glimmer of genitalia, the central nervous system acquires its basic structure.
It is here, deep within the most complex structure in the embryo that Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS fna transsexuality) begins.
Ongoing scientific research strongly suggests that HBS is a birth condition that misaligns innate neurobiological makeup and external genitalia: a person who is neurobiologically female exhibits male sexual... |
June 24th, 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. Jesus wrote us the other day. At least I think it was Jesus (he works for the Family Research Council, doesn’t he?). [N1] He seems to have visited us quite frequently in the last few days. (It must be a slow week judging sinners or perhaps he took the week off and is surfing the web on vacation.) Anyway Jesus, or one of his disciples, wrote us.
This is what he wrote (his spelling):
Trensgenders, do not insult Jesus Christ and God the Father by wearing clot... |
June 22th, 2008
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Subiaco, WA, Australia. There is something within us that signals that we are in the presence of an enthusiast. I had that feeling while watching Andrew Denton interview Jeff Kennett. After stalling question after question Jeff launched into a promo about depression and the organisation Beyond Blue (depression initiative).
This kind of behaviour is embarrassing because it breaks the norms of conversation. This is why we quickly move away from someone we meet at a party who displays... |
June 15th, 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. As we all know, at least those of us who pretend to have a well rounded education, one who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, but one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. We must question with boldness even our gods, even our most revered theories and deeply personal self-rationalizations: gender theory, transgender, crossdressing, fetish transvestism, gender identity disorder, Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS), and neurobiological research.
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June 14th, 2008
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