Strong opinions, well said, are acceptable. Homophobic insults are not. Please reconsider the last sentence in your comment entitled Lady Karen of Schelleville.

Whenever someone make a case for social medicine here in the States, this kind of nightmare is what I imagine to be the end result, well along with the inevitable higher cost and much lower level of care because of rampant system abuse by all involved. This is why I have no use for gay men/LGBT (AKA: Gay, Inc.), and Big Government/Socialism/State run anything as the two will always collude in order to ensure that we (being women, which most men, (all gay men) despise whilst pretending to like) shall be relegated to the bottom level of society where "any man sick enough to cut off his penis ob...

I have been ostracised by virtually every group I've ever been involved with, to greater of lesser degree. I'm just one of those people with the great big capital "L" stamped invisibly on my forehead. Somehow, I did not think that when my kids were grown, they and their father would team up against me, but they do. I walk in a room, my daughter will literally walk out, and the whole family talk to each other back and forth, but again, not to me. I think people like me give off something like an "air of desperation" or something that puts people off maybe. I have to cite another example: on ...

Let me see, the numbers would indicate that for a 10% increase in spending that person health got better by 1.9% and a 1.5% increase in survivability; I would assume some of group A are also a part or all of group B. For a 10% increase in spending, that's NOT very good.. Researchers called it a "modest effect" ? I'd call it a pretty poor usage of the money for such a tiny improvement.

Critics of the fee-for-service model say it results in haphazard care for patients and allows providers to drive up costs by ordering unnecessary tests and treatments. Critics say MCOs — at least the for-profit ones (some are nonprofits) — have an incentive to offer skimpy services and deny procedures in order to boost profits Somehow, these two statements seem direct opposites. However on the first quote, one must remember that providers began ordering "unnecessary" tests and treatments to cover themselves in the event of a malpractice law suit. This was due to too many ambulance chasin...

I love case reports. Sure, we can't rely on anecdotal cases to guide our treatment, but reading a case report let's us see the patient, not just the numbers. In this way, it stands out in our mind. I don't go to sleep thinking about numbers, but I have lost sleep remembering that one interesting case, however. Also, if we start collecting a pile of case reports that have something in common, we know that a grander study is called for to determine the statistical significance of the findings in the case reports.

Twenty two links later, there I was at philosophy.

I will never think of ladies like you the same way ever again. Your knowing words brought tears and the joy of my best memories. Thank you, on behalf of my late husband and all who have sacrificed their lives in service.

It would probably help if the railroads adopted the same plan the airlines did where they all have separate hubs. If you are going to California from Tampa Florida, you don't HAVE to pass through Chicago as you do on the Amtrack route. Instead you can go through Dallas, Atlanta, Memphis or several other regional hubs on different airlines. Another point is that once you arrive at one of these hubs, you can a direct flight in most instances directly to another metropolitan air port at or close to your desired destination. Try that with the train service. To track the train from Tampa to Califo...

This DNA stuff is amazing. Seems to be a lot more clever than we are, but DNA 'IS' what we are so i guess i need to see that we are more clever than we are.

Thank you for your service.

Isn't that what politicians use to decide how much new legislation will cost?

The law does nothing to regulate so called puppy mills. It does more harm to legitimate breeders than anyone else. The space requirements are the same for all dogs regardless of their size and wouldn't be adequate for a greyhound and is overboard for any of the toy breeds. It was a stupid law and should be repealed it obviously was authored by people who attended public schools in California.

I agree with this study. I went to the Philippines recently after 9 years of living in the U.S. I grew up in the Philippines so I still remember the streets around the neighborhood and how to get home. I also remember exactly how my old house looked like. Being away from home for such a long time, I was shocked to see that everything was not as big as I thought it was. The house seemed a lot smaller, the roads looked a lot tighter, and the way from my house to school is a lot shorter. Since I grew up physically, the world did seem smaller.

Why shouldn't government employees pay a part of their health care just like everyone else. Matter of fact, they should pay the average of what every other worker in the state has to pay for insurance. Any more, wages are comparable to or better than wages at private employers and the government worker has better job security and is harder to fire even for cause.

Based on the text posted earlier, the relevant portion of the initiative has the following to say about space requirements. It is up to residents of Missouri and our readers to determine whether the requirements, as priginally approved, were reasonable. As posted by the Misouri Secretary of State, the voter-approved ballot initiative, since repealed, had these provisions that addressed space requirements. 273.345. 3. (4) Sufficient space to turn and stretch freely, lie down, and fully extend his or her limbs; 273.345. 5. (5) ”Sufficient space to turn and stretch freely, lie down, and full...

Statutory Amendment to Chapter 273, Relating to Dog Breeders 2010-085, Version 1 THE PROPOSED STATUTE Be it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri: Section A. One new section is enacted, to be known as section 273.345, to read as follows: 273.345. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as the ”Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act.” 2. The purpose of this Act is to prohibit the cruel and inhumane treatment of dogs in puppy mills by requiring large-scale dog breeding operations to provide each dog under their care with basic food and water, adequate shelter from the eleme...

I never cared much for Bob as a singer, but as a songwriter, he's ablolutely one of the best. Bob Dylan is a preeminent example of what I mean when I say songs were better when songwriters wrote and singers sang.

As it was to be implemented and not as it was sold to the voters. I have been following this issue for the last 5 years and the law would required an unreasonable amount of space for each dog in a registered kennel. Usually TS-SI does top notch research, but not this time. You get a D for being informed on this subject. I hope this isn't an emerging trend.

I really don't understand people regarding the term classic transsexual. It was a term used by shrinks to wind up there patients, until about ten years ago. I do not understand people who cling to terms that were terms that psychiatrists used to press there buttons and wind them up. 25 years ago I was told I was a classic transsexual by a psychiatrist. I felt vindicated. A couple of weeks later I met two local TS people and I raised it in the conversation. They both had the same thing told to them by the same psychiatrist. One of them 20 years earlier than me. Then I realised the shrink ha...

So, My big butt is NOT my fault, its nature that did it. I like the Pound/year gain from age 20 to age 79, now all I have to do is find a nutural cause to blame the OTHER 60 pounds on. Sitting here laughing.

never stops amazing us. You women are committed but you seem so darn normal. We never see you in the headlines or on talk shows like the trannynistas. Please keep up the good work.

The Moorish part of me struggles with my Iroquois blood to understand the Irish and English Isles as Sicily bemusedly watches from a beach front restaurant in Palermo and pours another glass of Sangiovese to share with North Africa. If anything, I am a zero sum game.

I performed and sang the songs of Dylan, Phil Ochs, Paul Simon, Dick Farina, Leonard Cohen Jackson C Franks as well as the British contingent of protest song writers like Leon Rosselson, Richard Thompson and yes Ewan McColl. I played concerts with some and toured with others. I marched in the anti nuclear rallies and in the anti racist rallies of 1960's. The sense of purpose that prevailed in those times reflected in the songs of all of these people afore mentioned are the reason USA has a black President. UK has elected a female Prime Minister and only two nuclear weapons have ever been explo...

A network of nerves carries messages back and forth between the brain and the rest of the body. Some nerves go directly from the brain to the eyes, ears, and other parts of the head. Other nerves run through the spinal cord to connect the brain with the other parts of the body.

Living in India in 64 I got a British pressing of "Bringing It All Back Home" and played it so much I literally wore it out. My parents were ready to kill me by then.

I wasn't a big Dylan fan either, although I've listened to my share of his music and saw him live during a tour with The Band in, er, 1970-something. I was into British Invasion, then prog, then sweet harmonies, then had another adolescence with punk and New Wave, then had yet another adolescence when Nirvana and the rest blew up boring radio. And I'm still listening to new music, when I can find stuff I like. You bet I'll rock if I want to! And you keep writing. We ain't dead yet!

Wasn't a fan or Dylan and wasn't really all that much into R & R; I preferred classical music (which is why I was in Band and Orchestra and played French Horn). My greatest regret is that I didn't stay with my love of music. I do miss all the great SciFi writers of old; everyone you mentioned was a favorite. Guess the real "Head of State" so to speak would have been Asimov with his Robot stories and Foundation series; However his science articles written for the common man were also excellent, easy to read and easy to understand. The man just seemed to have a knack. The only writer I enjoy an...

"I would always have what I needed if not always what I wanted. The price of this was to do Her work" I could have written that! I also have had to prepare. You are truly Cybeline's Reverend Mother. Peace, Love & Light.

Now IF they could only prove that man was ever quadrupedal.

A psychological projection of a personal nature, perhaps. :-)

New York and Gov. Cuomo should probably look at what's happen in Mass. Since they started cutting payments to Doctors under their "Health Care" plan. Fewer and fewer Doctors accepting new Medicaid patients and reducing the number of medicare patients they accept. Also more Doctors leaving the state and medicine. However, politicians never seem to learn and believe in "Blue Sky" and "fairyland" cures and plans. I'll probably read an article in the near future about the loss of Doctors in New York State.

I remember a class in Management where the instructor was a PhD candidate; he had a "test" he used in developing data for his thesis that consisted of msny common sayings; Ie "you get ahead because you are lucky", You get ahead because God helps you, etc etc, you know the type of sayings. You had a scale of 1-10 to indicate how much you agreed or disagreed with the saying. He had been giving to the students in his and other Management classes and he and his Faculty advisor discovered that his "test" was a better predictor of grade and performance in college than the SAT'S or other tests. Some...

Brown was an idiot when he was elected in 1974. When Reagan left office the State of California had an 8 Billion dollar surplus in the bank; when Brown took over, he managed to spend that and so much more that they talked about issuing warrants remediable at some time in the future as income tax refunds. Prop 13 was passed because the politicians saw homeowners as a exploitable piggy bank; They would raise the percent tax rate one year and the property appraisal the next, the impounds for taxes were higher for many people than the principal and interest payment on their house. The money was wa...

Or do they mean with a partner?

Not to word it too strongly but this experiment is a waste of time. I can understand the effort but the method is flawed. Any decision made by any conscious and critcal individual is going to come down to a myriad of factors that may or may not have anything to do with a belief in God...added to which, a decision made in a short period of time is far less likely to be processed from a religious moral standpoint and far more likely to be processed through current circumstances. Only people who are heavily burdened by the delusion of man made Gods would be influenced but doesn't that seem pretty...

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I was once described as coldly dispassionate when I would dissect someone's argument in an on-line discussion group. When I first went on line, I had to be told to let lose of my prey -- I had won and should quit torturing them in public. I try not to do that much anymore. But if would hazard a guess I would guess that my Working Memory Capacity is high.

makes sense, here is a joke I saw about animals and evolution, http://ponderingstuff.com/2011/05/08/animals-in-landfills/.

I don't think "Stem Cell Research" is a very good indicator to use about Media Bias" and political action. I have yet to see any results reported about break throughs from stem cell research, don't really care as long as the stem cells are obtained with the patient or parents consent. I am concerned and feel there is media bias when over 80% of the reporters of the "mainstream" media list themselves as being liberals or progressive and vote for a candidate from one particular party and when the news suddenly develops the same words that appear in one party's "talking point" papers and every "m...

One has to assume that he achieved all they claim for him in the article; the economy doesn't show any great control other than having prolonged it with his handouts to banks and the take over of automobile manufacturers and using them to pay off political supporters. The unemployment rate has yet to fall to 8% which he declared would be its HIGHEST level; He has done nothing about the continuing increase in the cost of gasoline and in fact has crippled our oil production. He got a "healthcare" bill passed that does nothing other than raise costs and illegally forces Americans to buy an insura...

Thank you Cathryn for sharing your story. Over the years I have heard bits and peaces of this story and have followed it with great interest.

And I'm planning on retiring next winter or spring. From the state that is, 'cause I won't be able to afford to RETIRE retire, but getting about half my present salary for leaving their employ is a pretty substantial incentive. Next spring I'll have worked for my state for thirty years, and that's about enough of being grossly underpaid. . . Though previously the underpayment by itself has never quite been enough to break the inertia.

Seems like a pretty intelligent comment, once one looks past the Duke thing.

The problem in many states is that the gasoline taxes have NOT been used for road building and maintenance, but for every other "transportation" project that comes down the road. Rather than charge enough to cover costs, public transportation has been allowed to run at a loss and supported by the auto driving public instead of making it pay its own way. In California, at one time the gasoline tax by constitutional law was restricted to road building and maintenance, somehow the pols got that changed and were then able to raid those funds for every "feel good" public transportation project that...

Two people sitting at an airport, both dressed like pilots, but only one knows how to fly a plane. Does being dressed like pilots make both of them pilots? I think not, as being able to fly a plane makes one a pilot, although I suppose we could call a pilot in training a pre-pilot! LOL I don't think, however, that if one drops out of pilot school and has no intent to ever fly that they'd now be called a non-flying pilot, even if they do wear a pilot's uniform. Then again, I'm just a poor helpless dummy from Duke University, so what do I know! So on to non-op, pre-op, and post-op I go . . ....

Perhaps part of the problem is the number of people that put off retiring and thus clogging the promotion route for younger workers that should have been moving up into some lower management positions but couldn't because they were still filled by those eligible for retirement but were holding on waiting for things to improve OR for the state to make them a better offer.

Dang, When I was in the Army (as requested by my "friends and neighbors"; After "graduation" from advance training, I was shipped to Korea for a tour of duty. Just prior to arriving at Kimpo airfield, we were given a set of two cards to fill out; You know, Name, Rank Serial Number, age, weight, etc. After deplaning at Kimpo. all of us "greenbeans" were lined up behind a screen where we handed the cards to a medic that then directed us to a specific table; Drop your trousers and underwear, elbows on the table, then SLOP a juicy wet alcohol wipe on both butt cheeks and then WHAP !! a needle into...

My spouse is probably FTM. Curently s/he is ussing testosterone but living androginously and unsure about pronouns. (As I am MTF I know what it is like to have to come to terms so I dont push it.) S/he has worked with autistic children and has been very honest in her introspection about self. S/he thinks s/he is definatly on the autism spectrum, very mild auspbergers would be her laywomans call. I have lived with autistic relatives and I must admit there are some striking similarities. Now I know that just because I see similarities, that does not make for fact. But it is a piece of anedotal e...

I have this book and it helped me make sense of my journey through life. We are each of us unique spiritual beings making the journey through human life.

I think a lot of the "satisfaction" depends on how the questions are asked. It is also interesting to note that all of these countries except the USA have extensive government "intervention" and intrusion into the private sector. Most could be rated as "Socialist" in form. I'd take this "survey and its conclusions with a LARGE dose of salt.

Landlines will be with us for several years to come; a swtchover to cell would require a possibly lengthy transition. In the meantime, you can get ahead of events to find a solution now. You did not specify the depth of your deafness, so that affects your options. Cell phone accessories are available for those who have partial hearing boosted with a hearing aid. For those who cannot hear at all, there are vibration alarms and visual cues to help you send and receive mail. To deal with arthritic conditions, cell phones are available with more widely spaced (and raised) keys. This makes them ...

about those of us who are deaf! like me, and i'm arthritc and can't 'text'!

Cathryn, we have dozens of articles that directly or tangentially address spirituality and/or religion, often from within a scientific context. The mainstream press sometimes addresses these topics, often as a kind of sabbath or holiday season feature. We hear from readers who despair of finding continuing coverage of such topics on other sites. And if we limit the reaction to those dealing with pre- or post-correction struggles in life, they are put off by the alternating currents of defensiveness or hostility from people who consider their own position inherently right and settled. The la...

That we know we will all die in the end but still go on is far nobler than a life that believes that there is an afterlife. We are alive and that is meaning enough for the universe. We search for others like us and that quest is what leads us to greatness. Humanity looks upon the face of the void and cries out that we exist.

rarely discussed.

Life and Spacetime are not static. Bipedalism, Fire, Gravity, Relativity, Quantum Physics, the Multi-Universe, the Star Drive: the earth moves, species live and die, the many worlds are not a Lifetime movie or a catchy political slogan. Our brains, our eyes, our ears, our hands challenge what we thought permanent. The wheat must separate from the chaff, even if we are comfortable in what we think of as the present. The future is ours if we have but eyes to hear it.

But I need to see the actual neuro-biology before I can even start to accept this. What are the physical/cellular triggers/relaltionships that might result in female-to-male transsexual people having a higher than average number of autistic traits. So far Baron-Cohen has provided an observation without an explanation of the basic physical mechanism that produces the supposedly observed result.

A wise move in anyone's budget is to cut spending before dipping into savings. It's not very intelligent to continue spending at a high level and to not cut non-essential spending before dipping into the "Rainy Day" funds which should be used to only cover essentials such as law enforcement, health and safety.

That insecurity in a male's gender role leads to a violent "masculine" response helps explain a similar, widely observed phenomenon. Often the most hateful and obsessed anti-gay men turn out to have deep-seated insecurities regarding their own sexual orientations. Hence, we see the "closet case," who spends a great deal of time and energy seeking to harm the interests of gay men and associated groups. As the article suggests, a superficially masculine reaction may be little more than a defense mechanism. At some level, an insecure man may think that few will question the masculinity of someo...

While both companies did bootstrap certain aspects of the research, they did not directly finance the majority of the research efforts. That support came from the http://www.nia.nih.gov/, a component of the http://www.nih.gov/. The site you mentioned, the http://www.agingportfolio.org has the potential for rolling up in-depth information across multiple organizations and countries, but does not yet have a complete database. You mentioned a search for grants on http://www.agingportfolio.org, noting that "Many were unrelated to prenatal." On the surface, that is not surprising since http://www...

I did a search on the agingportfolio.org using "prenatal and sequencing" and found 67million dollars in grants. Many were unrelated to prenatal. It looks like the whole thing is practically financed by Sequenom and Quake's groups.

I wrote this in an earlier article and in view of the vitriol and direction of the comments away from the subject which is a standard transgender tactic to avoid the truth I feel it is worth repeating: The fantasy or fetish role where women can have a penis has dominated Gender Theory with very aggressive transgender people silencing all those who question the scientific basis by screaming transphobia and gender is a range.   Gender is at best a range of expression & perceptions but not including the right to deny physical sex correction and full integration into society. Transsexuals neve...

She was a good candidate, there was no doubt of that, she did her best to obtain the surgery and her best to obtain even the FFS. A "piling on" of things over whelmed her as it does many people who are Transsexual. She had a single child, her son, whom she loved very much; her ex had taken steps to prevent her from every seeing her son again; Her sister was telling lies about her and especially where she worked, then add on the inability to obtain SRS or even FFS and the burden became more than she could bear; she felt that the world had dumped upon her head and there was no way out, so she d...

I always find it ironic how the older, more bitter transgendered women are always the most likely to be dicks. Every difference you can find with other transgendered people is an excuse for you to say "see, this proves I'm better than you. A TRUE woman wouldn't do that. A true woman would be specifically like me and me alone. But you are different. You are not a true woman." Whole thing is a childish "trannier than thou" game that I would have hoped adults would be above.

Wow, and here I was thinking because of our struggles and unique perspective, we'd be a bit more enlightened, but thank you so much for disproving this naive notion, Maggie Fox. You sure do like to use the word "know" in place of "think" a lot, I've noticed. But your prejudices are good enough for you, I guess, and you're set in your ways and uninterested in any damage your bitterness might cause. Good for you. Bad for everyone else.

And the government never lies. Have a nice day.

The truth is Bin Laden is eating donuts with Elvis at a coffee shop just outside Memphis that is run by Jim Morrison. So when the music's over Turn out the lights The music is your special friend ance on fire as it intends Music is your only friend Until the end -- The Doors c. 1967

Bin Laden's failed kidney's were taken after his death in 2001 to Area 51 where they were immediately sustained by aliens being kept alive after the Roswell incident. Those same aliens, disguised as businessmen, were meant to be infiltrated into an investment firm located in the World Trade Center, but the United States government caught wind of the plan and decided to destroy the building with explosives under the guise of sending two jet liners into the buildings on live television. All that resulted was a huge pile of rubble...so that plan was scrapped. The tainted kidneys are now being ...

I completely understand the annoyance and distress caused by those conflating terms out of ignorance, a desire to be inclusive or exclusive, or as an attempt to over simplify or completely eradicate their opposition. There have been people born since people appeared on this earth who have had their brains cross-sexed, relative to their bodies. Of course, as soon as I say this, some will prefer cross-gendered. LOL So, even before I can discuss the word “transsexual”, I’m immediately forced to consider the words “sex” versus “gender”. Both words have multiple meanings, in part, du...

This was propaganda for your consumption. A new boogy man will arrive soon. The phony fear level must be maintained. Yes he is dead We didn't kill him and he didn't die 3 days ago ether. He died of kidney failure in late 2001.

I’ll personally side-step the question of who is or isn’t a transsexual.  However, personally I can say without hesitation for me living as a female with a penis was COMPLETELY unacceptable.  I had someone once say they were concerned about having GRS, as they were afraid they would lose the ability to reach orgasm.  They were surprised, I guess, that I responded that I could care less, as I wanted my body and brain in alignment PERIOD.  I could no longer live in the body of a male—I mean, like, I was planning to commit suicide immediately prior to transitioning!  It was also COMPLE...

Sorry I have no sympathy whatsoever for "narcissistic people who make excuses and whine about their oppression - the real subject of their narrative." I realise that we should be sympathetic and feeling but the Queer political lobby use these arguments to justify their myth that a male drag queen or a transvestite fetishist is part of the range / spectrum of transgender. This is the quote they use to justify their politics! "The term trans as in trans man, trans woman, trans community, trans people etc. is a very British term, coining in the 1960s when a well known member of parliament utt...

Just because surgery can be performed does not mean that a particular surgeon has the skills and infrastructure to perform it. Couple that with the situation of a patient who is stymied and depressed by continual rejection, it is no surprise to us that medical conditions can and do deter SRS. In my own case, my medical history was a significant hurdle. I got over that, of course, but saw others who could not, daunted and overwhelmed by complex medical and financial considerations. I also saw others with even more difficult obstacles make it through. There comes a point where human resolve re...

Where is the list of medical conditions that stop you having sex correction? Answer only in the mind of a transgender. It is not a valid argument for the assimilation of women who were once women born transsexual into the transgender myth. I don't care if you refuse surgery or only want "top surgery" but the qualification for being a woman is simply not having a penis. In England the law allows yo have a female birth certificate but requires you to become a transgender to get it. If you ask for a new birth certificate having had irrevocable sex corrective surgery you are refused one as t...

Maggie, Several years ago, the surgeons in England and Thailand all felt the risk was too great; So, NOT a bad example but a true example. Blame the unknowing surgeons if you like, BUT NOT the person who was devastated by the refusals; Her death was several years prior to your article. She was told that they WOULD NOT perform surgery on her except in an emergency where it was a matter of life or death without the surgery. I'm beginning to think you ARE a pretty nasty person IF you found something humorous in her committing suicide or looking for someone to give you a "laugh" out of it. My advi...

Bad example completely silly see the even use surgery to improve the condition "Surgical thymectomy is indicated for its therapeutic effect in myasthenia gravis (MG)" So anaesthetic is possible for MG patients wanting sex corrective surgery. http://totw.anaesthesiologists.org/2008/12/14/anaesthesia-and-myasthenia-gravis-122/ Your condition that means you must keep your penis is? Come on give me a laugh!

I know of one person that could NOT get surgery, neither SRS nor FFS due to her medical condition; She suffered from MG (don't ask me to spell it). With SRS, the surgeons, including ones in Thailand, refused to do the surgery on any one with her condition and the same even for FFS. She at one point thought she had both a surgeon and an anestheiologist lined up to do some FFS work on her (she didn't really need any in the opinion of several of her friends) and then they more than doubled the agreed upon price, moving it well beyond her ability to pay. They were all afraid that while under the a...

Myth 1. People have incurable medical conditions that are so impossible to manage that they would die if exposed to either a general or local anaesthetic so cannot have surgery. The list includes? Never published as won't stand up to peer scientific peer review. Myth 2. That Trans may indicate an underlying serious mental illness, a medical condition that talking can cure, thereby eliminating the need for surgery. The list includes? Never published as won't stand up to peer scientific peer review. Myth 3. It has to be a mental illness as I can't afford surgery and it wouldn't be funded o...

....ok So I should die now because my life as a woman impossible with a penis? Only my doctor and I know I have a penis. The world treats me like a woman. I am a woman. In every way save a couple ounces of ussless flesh between my legs, I am a woman. I have some serious medical issues. I will last anouther 5-6 years. All I was attempting to do was inject some humanity into the debate. This is not always a black and white world.

There are a lot of myths in the world, even some that pose as the truth. We don't need to look far back to find those. Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11, We are backing Al Qaeda in this latest round of toppled governments. How much of what "we" consider truth is simply well orchestrated propaganda?

One of the things I could never quite understand during my father's final illness is why, when he got so he couldn't hit the toilet reliably, he wouldn't just sit down to pee. Indeed he claimed not to be able to pee sitting down. Then a good friend pointed it out as a classic case of Freudian castration anxiety. . . I guess this is one of the things ol' Doctor Freud was right about. It's also one of the many things about men that women born transsexual have absolutely no better handle on than our cisgender sisters. BTW, about capitalists: They have about as great a range as any other class ...

Given the overall content of this website, I expect readers with IQs above room temperature, This is my last response to you on any subject matter. Now THAT is snark.

One of the classic socio-political arguments to justify the bogus theory of gender is what do we do about those on their death beds unable to have surgery. It is often accompanied by the poor victimhood sympathy card and I dismiss it as ludicrous. I know people (myself included) who were advised caution. What you do is find a way to get there (multiple local anaesthetics whatever it takes) you go through it because if your brain is female and your body male then you do whatever it takes and at whatever risk to correct. You have no choice it is not an aspiration, a desire, a fetish, a life-sty...

appear to be a snark, a jest or troll bait. I only ask for consistency in your treatment of the subject.

My response to a troll was snark........do I really have to spell this out for you?

Nor the snark. Seemed like a serious statement to me. I don't troll much at all I take the article's at face value and expect to be honest and forthright.

I am stuck with my penis. I can not get medical clearance for GRS due to multiple medical conditions. If I could get GRS I would be on the table yesterday. I am cursed to take a males body to my grave. So I am relegated to being a cross dresser/TG regardless of the fact I have been full time for quite some time now? I would love to have a vagina and good health to pursue a new life. That dream is denied me. Please do not call me a man.

it's called "snark" or sarcasm.