Short Summary A large majority of respondents believed current diagnosis rates are under-diagnosing women relative to men Respondents tended to cite social expectations and biased diagnosis tools for this The online autistic community seems fairly diverse in terms of gender identity and age, and in particular there's a very large transgender and gender non-conforming population…
Category: Transgender
Trump sits down for a crazy-as-fudge interview with Piers Morgan
Had I known Donald Trump was sitting down for an interview with Piers Morgan I would have been frightened out of my mind knowing they might spontaneously collapse into a douchebag singularity and swallow up the solar system and, eventually, the outer spiral arm of our galaxy. But that didn’t happen. Instead we witnessed a supernova of spittle and…
Anti-trans 'journalist' Alex Jones tries to explain why he had trans porn on his phone
One of the least surprising news stories of all time concerned a group of researchers who were forced to abandon a controlled study on the effects of porn because they couldn’t find a single man who had never watched it. So, yeah, we know people watch porn. And maybe they sometimes drift a little far afield, consuming…
My Planet Fitness post provokes a “rebuttal” from extremist right-wing “Christian” hypocrites
Originally posted at Eclectablog. My Eclectablog post yesterday (“Anti-trans* woman uses Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to sue Planet Fitness for terminating her membership“) which I cross-posted here at Daily Kos, provoked a response from the so-called “Christians” at RenewAmerica.com today. The piece is written by Ellis Washington, a founding board member of Salt and…
Anti-trans* woman uses Michigan civil rights act to sue Planet Fitness for cancelling her membership
Originally posted at Eclectablog. Earlier this month I wrote about a woman in Midland who had her Planet Fitness membership cancelled because she spent her days in their gym warning anyone who would listen that Planet Fitness had a “No Judgment Zone” policy that permitted a transgender woman to enter the women's locker room. Keep…
