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Now that sounds like a gym I could really get into visiting!
Your New Year’s Resolution is Destined to Fail
Not sure why lady is in quotes in your response, but otherwise yep, lots of marginalized groups are…
So well written and informative. Thank you for this!
Forget Hogwarts Houses. Which Pokemon Type Are You?
Oh, you’ll be cross posting your stuff to here too?
I hope you’ll still pop on here from time to time, but if not, thanks for having been a supportive…
That’s because I’ve written lots of essays about it! For yearsHere’s one!
Why Santa Is the Ultimate Fantasy
Thank you so much for sharing your story!
Thank you so much for sharing all this, and I’m glad that one day the trans fairy did come and tell…
The guy I describe about halfway through the piece — Miles — transitioned years ago and is stealth.
Isn’t it just astonishing how many insults and curses that we don’t even pause to think about have…
The Trans People You’ll Never Know
For me, it all comes down to looking at the problematic behavior (in this case theft) from a…
Love the way you’ve described your own experience with this, and the ongoing journey to become more…
Yes! I believe she says something about having been a black belt (a male only title in that…
Please don’t ask a survivor to help you with this. It’s just too triggering. Best of luck.
I wish so much that it did for my family.
Responding to Call-Outs with Wisdom and Grace
“Good” also means suitable or fitting.
Do you wish that you had more freedom to be feminine?
Excited to learn more about this chapter of your life soon!
The Science-Backed Way to Write a Lot
Shortly before I came out, I had to do a TV interview, and I remember breaking down with anxiety at…
Really inspiring and appropriately challenging advice, thank you James!
Thanks for all your kind words, Daniel!
I can tell you really care about your kid.
Wow that is not a wise thing to say to someone with an eating disorder!
What a rude and dismissive thing to say.
Please feel free to share it with them!
Getting Good at Doing Things Badly
It reminds me of the Mattel gender neutral dolls all over again.
Oooh that sounds super fun to write! Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for writing about this and for nipping the transphobia in those Facebook groups in the bud.
How to Get the Most Out of Therapy
I haven’t read that before, thank you for the rec!
The University I teach at is Jesuit, and time and time again I am dismayed by how their use their…
Thank you so much James and Chloe!
Thanks for commenting and boosting my Medium revenue, baby 😈
Hi Jarett, please remove the “she’s” and “hers” in this article that heavily references my work.
Kim, oh my god, thank you so much for writing this for me.
This message is a little condescending.
I’m so sorry your former partner did that.
I think that example works equally well!
Fantastic writing as always James.
The piece has always mentioned the wigs.
Mmmm yes, I love waking up every morning, putting testosterone gel on my body, wearing clothes that…
Looks like somebody didn’t read the piece!
Did you read my responses to them?
If you think any amount of reflective critique is whining, then you’re among the 50% of people who…
How absolutely fragile and self-centered of you.
Time Magazine says they’re supposed to be seven.
Thanks for your comment — and it’s super interesting to hear that your kid’s play centers on child…
Thanks but I’m not in the market for dolls right now actually.
Oh yeah, the adults care more.
Kids don’t notice or mind a lot of things that subtly teach them biases.
Yup! Not the worst it could possibly be for sure — just feels really tame and cis-brained, lol.
You’re right that no doll or toy would capture the full range of diversity that our community…
I’d love to learn more about this, could you link me?
I do mention in the article that the dolls come with long haired wigs.
Hi Marie, thanks for your comment!
The Problem With Mattel’s Gender-Neutral Dolls
It might seem like we do a lot for our students, but everything we do is based on what’s helpful…
Sounds like you’re pretty close to getting it.
Thank you for teasing apart two things that I hadn’t even realized were tangled for me.
I’m glad that data was instructive for you, but I wouldn’t call Ashly Madison a scientific data…
I absolutely ought to have mentioned my white privilege, that is an enormous factor in how I am…
Hi Vivian! Thanks so much for your comment!
My Eating Disorder Wears Many Masks
The article does talk about contextual factors for why professors lack compassion.
Thank you so much for this comment!
There is no media outlet that agrees with my point of view.
Uh oh, looks like we’ve found an angry cis who didn’t get the memo.
Completely agree about Linkle!
You are correct that I also believe a medical model of gender dysphoria is also wrong.
Get this fake psychologist out of my sight.
And when we reward the literary greatness of a person whose other actions are reprehensible, we…
The students I discuss in this essay did have university-approved disability accommodations.
You know, I’ve been in trans circles for years now, and I have never, ever heard anyone say this.
The book How to Write a Lot, by Paul Silvia, is a total game changer.
Has demonizing drug users done much for the war on drugs?
The true point of this piece is that judging and labeling individual behaviors is…
Leather is an integral part of LGBT history.
Accommodations are things that people with disabilities and other barriers *ought* to feel entitled…
If you think that’s what the majority of working-class rural people’s circumstances are like…
LOLing at the fact that this is coming from someone with a cat avatar!
What an incredibly kind and generous thing to say.
Well, the way this question is worded presupposes that it’s either about general anxiety or it’s…
Yeah, I think I know what you mean — there’s a lot of “no excuses!
Thanks so much for your message.
This is such a lovely response, thank you.
Yes! That is my sense as well.
What a lovely message to receive!
From Self-Diagnosis to Self-Realization
Wow, what a lovely thing to hear!
Thanks for reading and engaging with what I had to say, I appreciate it!
Yes, it comes from real experience. And I hope you’ll ponder a bit why you doubted that it did.
All the women in question knew I wasn’t a woman, so they should have known better than to erase who…
Thank you for this piece James!
I can hear and feel the sadness that you mention — and though we have a very different outlook on…
I know! I’m a feminine man. It’s pretty gr
…And your headline reproduced that same problem!
This is a really big caveat and I wish it had been highlighted more in the piece.
To the Cis Artist Who Wants to Tell a Trans Story
“Being Gay Needs to Be Based on Objective Evidence Rather Than Feelings”
Yes! We undervalue our own lives and how important and society-changing it is to care for ourselves…
I’m Done Trying to Save the World
This is about the internet more than it’s about Banks.
Great question, and something I have had to struggle with myself.
You can feel and think whatever you like about whomever you like.
In my piece, I do discuss the systemic reasons why professors are sometimes not as compassionate as…
A lot of the time, whether you accept a behavior or not is pretty meaningless.
Aw, I’m so glad to hear this piece helped illuminate your friend’s feelings!
Art is subjective and preferential.
This is very helpful, thank you!
Thanks for your response Tico!
You’re confusing understanding the roots of a behavior with saying a behavior is OK.
You left a comment on the piece, but it sounds like you were trying to reach Medium’s curators?
It sounds like we agree that laziness is not a choice.
Thank you so much for sharing!!
Oh, honey, I am so so far from nothing.
I actually do talk about this in the piece in several places.
How I look isn’t the point of it.
Thank you so much for your comment!
It is definitely intersectional.
Chicago’s Queer Community Center is “Protected” by a Racist Cop
A few years ago, I read through some anti-burnout literature geared towards social workers.
I didn’t say that everyone thrives when given accommodations.
My waste magically evaporates into a cloud as it exits my body, and then it floats over to the…
The best way to show that “no one cares” about this is to… not care.
Asexual and bisexual people challenge the binary by showing that there are many ways to be…
Obviously not. I just don’t want them to harass their victims or any other victims.
Unfortunately I think many instructors would be totally defensive with any students who expressed…
Understanding the causes of behavior does not excuse the behavior.
I believe that all those problems have structural, systemic causes, and that addressing those…
Yes! So much to relate to here. My abuser was bi too, and it’s weird to share that ID.
A lot for me to relate to here.
Thank you so much for being so understanding and receptive!
One form that homophobia takes is pressuring gay and lesbian people to give opposite-sex attraction…
I really love this snapshot of your life, thank you so much for sharing it.
Thanks, I appreciate you supporting my work though you somehow also find my existence pitiful and…
I’ve told you already, to subscribe to this philisophy you do not ask about a student’s health…
You know comments boost my Medium Partner income, right?
I am so sorry for how you were treated.
You don’t have to know a student’s private medical or mental health status to trust them.
I’m a they, not a she, but thanks for your question.
Oh my god yes, so much self-acceptance and self-trust for me has come from the fact that it has…
Wow, our experiences dovetail so much!
Paid mine off years ago. But thanks for the comment, it does give me Medium revenue.
Yeah, if that’s your attitude I don’t want to be associating with you either.
Stop Treating Gay Men Like Hypersexual Perverts
Thanks but I wrote what I wanted to write.
Thank you so much for this comment Jim!
Oh, absolutely yes it would be!
James! I’m so glad to have found your Medium profile.
Thanks for your comment, Furry.
Thanks so much for reading, James!
Glad to hear this was a helpful affirmation, and that you use similar talking points to push back…
I Transitioned 3 Years Ago. Here’s What I’ve Learned So Far.
I’ve been meaning to write one!
Cis people are not natural. They’re the contrivance.
Hahahaha omg I love how honest your bigotry is.
Thank you so much for your comment Rachel!
Comment Culture Must Be Stopped
So many commenters on this piece want to claim that they, alone, are the exceptions to this rule.
It’s interesting that you are defining “maturity” here by whether a person is quiet and docile…
Cis people get so emotional when trans people point out that we have vastly more expertise on this…
You may need to re-read the article.
His behavior was damaging and his reasons seem to have largely been misogyny.
Was bragging about having sex with underage fans on his book tour great?
Snapchat Can’t Tell You What It’s Like to be Trans
In changing the ‘laziness’, or in changing our judgements of other people?
That makes sense, thanks for responding!
Kind of a condescending comment don’t you think?
“Heartbeat” Abortion Bans: What Comes Next
Yes!! Thanks for introducing me to this quote!
Mental illness is not an excuse for stalking or abuse.
A lot of the questions you’re asking are actually answered in depth in DT Max’s biography.
I’m sure you mean well, but this is an incredibly condescending thing to say.
I also really worry about tools like these being used in a way that robs a person of agency.
We’re talking about parents and relatives of a wide span of ages, who behave in a variety of ways —…
Thank you for your kind words, but please do not use my piece for advertising.
I would not call either of those things projects, would you?
Absolutely make sense — even here in Chicago there are lots of contexts that are not safe to bring…
I think it’s the case that our first memory of money is often (but not always), consistent with the…
I’m a socialist, dude. Rachel Maddow is a centrist ball of wet tissue paper to me.
More like Fox News created the myth of increasingly liberal media in order to justify its own…
I’d suggest always assuming that a student is burdened.
Associating swearing or any kind of informal language with unintelligence is pretty biased, and I’d…
Thank you so much for your comment!
Read the links in the piece. I don’t believe for a second you didn’t notice those were there.
And to be fair, many social workers who take the less compassionate angle are just really burned…
No, that’s ok. I appreciate the apology.
Most of the people described in the pieces I linked to are adults whose parents are in their…
What an unnecessarily cruel series of things to say.
Well, you could just look at what I wrote, rather than restating it two completely different ways.
I do discuss that in the piece. It’s not their fault they think that way.
I’m so sorry that your mother treated you that way.
Diversity of viewpoints is not good when the views pertain to things like a marginalized group’s…
I don’t think that’s necessarily true.
Fox News Didn’t “Steal” Your Parents
Hahahaha omg wow for a troll you are insightful, even if your interpretation is backwards.
I’m a they, not a she. And I’m working on a book expanding on this essay right now!
You don’t recognize anything I’ve mentioned?
Ah, and we’re back to calling people lazy for not doing something, aren’t we?
Need to get a perspective on the fact that no one needs your opinion, bud
I actually think our perspectives are compatible.
Not everyone can develop the physical and mental habits that you would describe as ‘healthy’.
I’m not really rooting for a post-label world per se, for some of the reasons I describe in the…
Yep! Identity is not activity, and it’s not something we can really ever name for somebody else.
Hair-cutting as Self-Sculpture
Yo read the piece it’s literally about this
It’s not about the essentialness of the thing being missed, it’s about how hard it is for the…
This piece is not about overcoming a shit situation.
I’m a queer former United Methodist. And I’m tired.
Let’s not put this on any mental disorder or any cluster of disorders.
Yes, that is why this piece notes the external causes of why people academia judge this way, and…
Yes! And learning to talk to kids is not about using a baby voice or anything like that — it’s…
How considerate of you to write that!!! Thank you!
I am so so sorry that people have misunderstood you and pushed rigid, unfair expectations onto you…
How to Change Your Name 3 Times
The descriptive is not prescriptive here.
Cool, send me a link when you do!
Mik’s other book, Turtle, is excellent, and for a more self-helpy angle on these issues, The…
I’m so sorry that the adults in your life are blaming you for your own anxiety!
Nope, a professor should not be a therapist.
Did I say anything about hugging coworkers? I did not. There are other realms of life, man.
You mention having a philosophy degree in your bio.
Wow thank you so much for all this rich context.
I am so grateful to you for this message.
I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful, but this is condescending advice.
The IUD Chronicles Part 7: One Year Later
You should totally write that essay!
Oh, I don’t believe that there are no moral failures.
Both of us… wrote posts about gender norms on a website.
Being nonbinary doesn’t opt me out of the game, buddy.
On Biphobia & Homophobia in LGBTQ Spaces
Thanks! And yes, this is the really delicate part about writing about such topics.
Your comments keep equating “refusing to be with someone of a certain type” (which is what I wrote…
I promise you I would have just read another long book, and I would’ve been fine.
Not wanting date someone fat is super fucked up and wrong.
Yeah it’s so clever that about 40 different people have tweeted this exact joke to me.
My gosh, thank you so much for such a wonderful critique.
Thank you so much for your comment!
Science is currently unable for both ethical and practical reasons to raise children in completely…
I am not interested in blaming women for internalizing sexist norms.
This piece isn’t about women being at fault for sexism, nor is it about women needing to take more…
It’s unfair to say women have the power to stop patriarchal standards.
Liking those things is fine. Feeling like you have no option but to like them is not.