I recently viewed a smug interview by Bill Maher with Andrew Yang and John McWhorter strongly defending Dave Chappelle. It is highly repugnant to me. They’re excusing mean-spirited transgender tropes being used in mainstream comedy — and their downstream effects. Psychological scientists Peter McGraw (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Caleb…

(A letter semi-anonymously published rather than sent) To the organizers of the reunion event: I convey my regrets. I will not be attending the celebratory alumni event you have graciously organized. It’s not just that I no longer live in my hometown. There are several reasons, actually. Let’s start with…

Words have real power and consequence. And I believe that for the transgender community, there is a major terminology collision that needs to be sorted out. First Construct of Gender: The medical community has generally distinguished between Sex and Gender as follows: (1) Sex is based on multiple biological traits…

Trans Bad Day of Bad Days TODAY IS A REALLY, REALLY BAD DAY IF YOU’RE TRANS IN THE US. Today, in the middle of a wave of protests against institutionalized racism in our police forces and across our entire society… in the middle of a brutal police crackdown in response to mostly peaceful protests to decry…