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This was written by The Guardian's science editor, which I find a little appalling, because he says stuff like this:

> Embryos start to become male or female at about six to eight weeks.

It's a ridiculous thing to say. Those embryos have always been either male or female, because they have always had the same DNA. Saying that they "become" male or female at 6-8 weeks is like saying that a human embryo only becomes human at week 8, because that's when you start to be able to see clear differences between a human embryo and a rabbit or a pig.

She wrote a book to brainwash other little kids with this regressive bullshit.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Matter-What-Adrienne-Anzelmo/dp/198498120X/

"What a beautiful story! After my 9 year old read it, I asked if he understood what the book was about. He was quickly able to explain that the child in the story "preferred bright, sparkly clothes, princesses and other things that boys don't typically like, even though he was born a boy. The mom tells them to live how they feel in their heart and mind. I think that's really nice." "

Abusive is the right word. Purdah makes a lot of women sick. This Saudi Arabian study found only 34% of the women that participated had normal vitamin D levels. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256100865_Prevalence_of_vitamin_D_deficiency_in_Saudi_adults

Ronin's story is examined more closely in light of what it tells us about gender in this piece by Jonathon Reed.

One paragraph in particular stood out to me: >...when a boy refuses to adhere to rigid gender-based expectations, whether by wearing ‘feminine’ clothing or joining the cheerleading team or anything else, he is punished. Masculinity requires conformity. The punishment often comes from other boys, but the message is perpetuated by parents and media sources. Through feelings of shame, fear and isolation, boys learn that it is not okay to be different — and more often than not, to resist is to stand alone.

Of note, here's the description of the "I am Jazz" book on Amazon (it's below the "read more" under the Laverne Cox quote.)

>From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.

Incidentally that "girl's brain in a boy's body" line is on the back cover of the book too.

Tell me how that's not profoundly sexist, libfems.

You know I watched a very interesting and funny anime a while back called Princess Jellyfish, about a cross-dressing boy and a bunch of nerdy women who don't fall into typical feminine roles. It's pretty interesting and entertaining with a great dub.

Though the boy in question isn't trans (he cross-dresses out of an interest in fashion and to feel closer to his absentee mother who was a model and doesn't really care what other people think about it), you'd think people who like to claim every other character is trans would gravitate toward something like this. Maybe they don't because the show generally gives the message that these nerdy women are fine the way they are.

The metafilter thread on this is a predictable circlejerk about how beautiful and brave this person is, then takes an interesting turn halfway through when it's decreed that 'passing' is an offensive concept and since most transpeople will never pass it should be abandoned. I give it 3 months until concepts of 'passing' are officially declared to be hate speech.

Oh no, the language about "shifting" reminded me of some creepy books someone showed me on Amazon. Now I more fully understand what's going on, and I don't want to.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Having-Dinosaurs-Baby-Paranormal-Convenience-ebook/dp/B015HJ4L58?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Oh I see. See, "jealous" does not mean the same as "envy".

>Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have.

What I said is that you're really jealous of your victim status as a woman. Ie, warning the dude/dudette that he/she doesn't get to have the "female oppression" that you do. That's you being jealous of it - ie, fearing it'll be taken away or diluted by dude/dudette getting to enjoy it too.

Believe me, penis envy is as absurd a concept to me as it is to you.