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A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'


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No, Acknowledging That All Genders Can Menstruate Doesn’t “Erase Women”

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If you think only women have periods—and feel upset when people tell you that other genders have them too—let’s talk.


Period product company Always announced last week it will be removing the Venus symbol(commonly used as a “female” emblem) from its packaging to be inclusive of all the other genders that menstruate. The move has drawn backlash from some women who believe they’re being erased from conversations about periods and who feel like the movement toward gender inclusivity is devaluing or attacking what they see as womanhood itself. Some people have said having periods and being able to give birth are what make women special and unique, and they believe it’s disrespectful to try to make these things apply to men and others.

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A lot of this pushback involves willfully ignoring a biological fact: that trans men, non-binary people and people of literally all genders can menstruate, and many do. But I’d wager that what’s driving the transphobic uproar isn’t outright hate for trans people and people of other genders; rather, it’s a lack of understanding and, more than anything else, a reflexive fear of losing one’s identity.

In essence, this is a demand that we all ignore trans and gender-nonconforming people’s biological reality in order to preserve cis women’s feelings. And we can’t do that.

Just to set the record straight, gender doesn’t have anything to do with your body.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, everyone is assigned a sex at birth based on their genetics and body parts, and your sex is not the same as your gender.

“Gender identity is defined as a person’s deeply felt, inherent sense of being a girl, woman, or female; a boy, a man, or male; a blend of male or female; or an alternative gender,” the American Psychological Association explains in its guidelines for treating trans and gender-nonconforming people. “Gender identity differs from sex assigned at birth to varying degrees, and may be experienced and expressed outside of the gender binary.”

Cisgender people have a gender that aligns with their sex assignment, whereas trans and non-binary people don’t. There are an estimated 1.4 million trans and non-binary Americans. When we try to describe biological processes like menstruation and pregnancy as what makes women “unique and special,” we’re reducing womanhood down to a set of body parts. No matter if we’re cis or trans, we should all be able to agree that women are way more than our bodies. We have shared experiences, pressures, joys, and struggles, and those are what unite us.

Yes, all genders can menstruate.
Unlike gender, menstruation is about your body. Anyone with a typically functioning uterus and vagina will menstruate, regardless of their identity. For example, a trans man who has a typically functioning uterus and vagina will menstruate. That’s just a biological reality. So yes, men can have periods. In fact, anyone of any gender can have a period.

“Not all women menstruate and not all people who menstruate are women,” OB-GYN Dr. Jennifer Conti tells SheKnows. “If you have a uterus and aren’t pregnant/breastfeeding, menopausal, hormonally suppressing your periods, or dealing with a condition like PCOS, then you’re likely menstruating.”

To clarify some confusion, we’re not talking about trans women here. Most trans women do not have uteruses and vaginas and therefore don’t bleed. We’re talking about trans men. Many trans men have uteruses and vaginas, as do many non-binary folks. So they bleed.

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Those women who are upset about making periods inclusive seem to think trans and non-binary people are somehow choosing to have their period. But of course, just like any cis woman, a trans man or non-binary person doesn’t get to choose whether menstruation “applies” to them. No one gets to choose whether or not they menstruate. If you have a uterus, menstruation is just your physical, biological reality.

Those women who are upset about making periods inclusive seem to think trans and non-binary people are somehow choosing to have their period. But of course, just like any cis woman, a trans man or non-binary person doesn’t get to choose whether menstruation “applies” to them. No one gets to choose whether or not they menstruate. If you have a uterus, menstruation is just your physical, biological reality.

“Gender has nothing to do with someone’s ability to menstruate,” Dr. Conti says. “It’s important to talk about gender as an irrelevant construct from menstruation—because it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside; you may have a uterus and you may be bleeding.”

It’s not fair to deny trans and gender non-conforming folks’ physical reality just so cis women feel “unique and special.”
Consider the trans man who has a uterus and therefore menstruates every month. How do you think he feels hearing everyone demanding we all keep saying only women menstruate? That guy probably already deals with a lot of stress and alienation from his own body every time he gets his period. What’s the point of making his life more miserable by telling him that his period invalidates his entire identity?

Research shows that denying, invalidating, or ignoring a person’s gender comes with real health consequences. Trans kids are alreadynearly four times as likely to deal with depression, and many studies have shown trans kids are even more likely to struggle with their mental health and attempt suicide the more they experience discrimination and stigma. One study published in the Journal of Homosexuality found trans kids who are denied access to gender-appropriate bathrooms, for example, are 45 percent more likely to attempt suicide.

Another study published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education found most LGBTQ kids received sex ed that only talked about heterosexual people, and the more excluded sexual minorities were from the discussion, the higher their rates of anxiety, depression and suicide risk are in high school and later in life. But research tells us the flip side is also true: more inclusive classrooms make LGBTQ students feel safer, face less bullying and get better grades in school.

Being validated and included in the conversation has a huge impact on LGBTQ people’s health and well-being. No one is denying that the vast majority of people who menstruate are girls and women. That said, there’s no reason to pretend that they’re the only ones who experience this, at everyone else’s expense. The same goes for pregnancy, breastfeeding or chestfeeding, or any other part of reproductive health.

Dr. Conti notes: “If a man with a uterus needs to wear a pad to soak up his period blood, what else would you propose he use? Man pads? Toddler pull-ups?”

We need to learn to share space.
I get it: for many, our womanhood is precious to us, and part of what’s at stake here is feeling able to unite and connect as women around a shared identity shaped by shared experiences. It’s true that these physiological realities do deeply affect the experience of womanhood for many. Many women bond over the shared experience of bleeding, birthing, breastfeeding and fending off all the sexist BS we deal with because our bodies do these things. We’ve created a deep, meaningful, powerful sense of community and shared identity over these physical experiences.

That’s valuable, and it’ll continue to be valuable. It also costs us virtually nothing to welcome people of other genders to come join, compared to how much those people gain from being included.

As feminist philosopher Dr. Kate Manne pointed out in a recent tweet, cis women are confusing “not being at the center of a discourse” with “erasure.” What’s at the heart of the backlash against acknowledging that all genders can menstruate is wanting to retain control of the narrative. It’s about cis women not wanting to relinquish the comfortable assumption that every conversation about periods has to do with them. It’s about wanting to keep that space for themselves and trying to stop it from being taken away. In short, it’s a loss of privilege.

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“Where I see a step towards equality and viability, others experience a removal, a discomfort—otherwise known as privilege,” sexologist and sex educator Emily L. Depassetells SheKnows. “The reactions to the removal of the Venus symbol exemplify privilege, and the discomfort in existing alongside trans and non-binary identities. It’s a confrontation that many cis-het identities do not yet have language for.”

We’ve always privileged cis women in conversations about periods and procreation because they’re the majority, and people seem to be experiencing the loss of that privilege as a personal attack—when it’s not.

We need to be able to share space. Even when that involves experiences that deeply affect our sense of selves, we need to be willing to let other people be at the table in peace, especially when those others are people who are already severely marginalized and way more oppressed than we are. Especially as women continue to fight for our rights and dignity, we need to be allies to others who are fighting for theirs. We can’t justifiably speak out about feeling erased while ourselves erasing other people.

Cis women don’t need to fight for the spotlight with trans and gender-nonconforming folks. We can celebrate and commiserate over periods, pregnancy, and the like without making it an exclusive party.

Women are way more than their bodies.

Nobody is going to forget that many cis women menstruate and give birth. To the contrary, our societal preoccupation with cis women’s menstrual cycles and ability to give birth tends to disadvantage us more than anything. Women still get passed over for jobs on the chance they’ll get pregnant, and then professionally sidelined or fired if they actually do. American women also used to pay more for health insurance because of their procreative abilities until Obamacare’s anti-discrimination policies came along (though the Trump administration and the GOP put in a solid effort to dismantle those rules.) As for menstruation, in 2016 people still brought up the whole “What if she’s on her period?” as a reason why a woman shouldn’t become president—and I swear to God I will drop kick the next person who asks me if I’m on my period just because I’m expressing normal human emotions.

We should also acknowledge that not all women have vaginas (as is the case for many trans women), and not every woman with a vagina is able to give birth or breastfeed. None of these women are any less of a woman because of what their bodies can or can’t do.

“Being inclusive around all procreative activities is better for trans men and non-binary folks who participate in them; it’s better for cis women who don’t or can’t; it’s better for trans women who typically can’t; and it’s better for cis women who do, absent bad ideology,” Dr. Manne writes.

One thing that actually makes women unique and special? Our willingness and dedication to supporting and lifting up the most vulnerable among us. The bottom line is that everybody deserves to be validated, supported, and given access to healthcare resources as they navigate their biological realities, no matter what their gender or identity might be.

And that starts with all of us acknowledging and speaking the truth: People menstruate, not just women.
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Anyone who disagrees is clearly a TERF.
 
But don't FtM's periods stop when they get hormone therapy? And non-binary people are just not even worth talking about. They can't even make up their minds what the hell they are. I mean, if they want to aspire to be a real life version of the Pat character from SNL, be my guest ... just don't expect me to give a damn what your pronouns are and to bend reality to pretend that men can have periods.

Just think of all those poor kids getting sex ed in 5th grade and trying to figure out whether or not they will actually get periods. After all, you can't see your own uterus. You used to be able to look down at your genitals and figure that out. Now, it's anyone's guess. On the plus side, we can finally start asking every guy who is irritable if he is on the rag. Because, I wouldn't want to assume that they couldn't menstruate and risk being accused of "woman privilege".

What a time to be alive!
 
I wasn't sure whether to make a new thread for this or what, so


Tl;dr effeminate asian pop singers are a glowop

Chinese record executive: Hey you know what’s popular right now? Korean singers that look like the cast members from saved by the bell.

Assistant: But sir we don’t have any one like that in China.

Chinese record executive: Get my phone I need to call my buddy in the CIA
 
Why stop short at removing the female symbol? They need to create new packages specifically aimed at definitely-not-female trans men and gender specials just to further affirm their manliness/something-genderness, like this:
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(I mean this unironically, I want to see what’s going to happen)
They're also releasing a socialist line, which includes pads lined with cash ...so you can bleed all over rich people's money.
 
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Some critics claim transgender athletes are ruining competition for cis women and girls, but they forget: Sports—and life—have never been fair.

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The Glorious Victories of Trans Athletes Are Shaking Up Sports

Transgender athletes are having a moment. At all levels of sport, they’re stepping onto the podium and into the headlines. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard won two gold medals at the Pacific Games, and college senior CeCé Telfer became the NCAA Division II national champion in the 400-meter run. Another senior, June Eastwood, has been instrumental to her cross-country team’s success. At the high school level, Terry Miller won the girls’ 200-meter dash at Connecticut’s state open championship track meet.

These recent performances are inherently praiseworthy—shining examples of what humans can accomplish with training and effort. But as more transgender athletes rise to the top of their fields, some vocal opponents are also expressing outrage at what they see as transgender athletes ruining sports for cisgendered girls and women.

These issues have come to a head in Connecticut, where a conservative Christian group called Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a legal complaint on behalf of three high school athletes who are seeking to bar transgender girls from competing in the girls category. In Connecticut, as in more than a dozen other states, high school athletes are allowed to compete in the category that matches their gender identity. According to ADF legal counsel Christiana Holcomb, two transgender athletes—Miller and another runner, Andraya Yearwood—“have amassed 15 different state championship titles that were once held by nine different girls across the state.” The US Department of Education’s office for civil rights is now investigating the group’s complaint.

Nowhere are the debates around transgender rights as stark as they are in sports, where the temptation to draw a hard biological line has run up against the limits of what science can offer. The outcome, at least so far, is an inconsistent mix of rules that leaves almost nothing resolved.

In the NCAA, for example, transgender women can compete on women’s teams after they’ve completed one year of testosterone suppression treatment. But the organization doesn’t place limits on what a transgender athlete’s testosterone levels can be. The International Olympic Committee has more granular rules: Transgender women can compete in the women’s category as long as their blood testosterone levels have been maintained below 10 nano moles per liter for a minimum of 12 months. Cisgender men typically have testosterone levels of 7.7 to 29.4 nano moles per liter, while premenopausal cis women are generally 1.7 nmol/L or less. Meanwhile, the governing body of track and field just adopted a 5nmol/L limit.

So which approach is most fair? “Fair is a very subjective word,” says Joanna Harper, a transgender woman, distance runner, and researcher who served on the IOC committee that developed that organization’s current rules. It boils down to whom you’re trying to be fair to, Harper says. “To billions of typical women who cannot compete with men at high levels of sport?” Or “a very repressed minority in transgender people who only want to enjoy the same things that everybody else does, including participation in sports?”

Transgender women’s performances generally decline as their testosterone does. But not every male advantage dissipates when testosterone drops. Some advantages, such as their bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size remain, says Alison Heather, a physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Testosterone also promotes muscle memory—an ability to regain muscle mass after a period of detraining—by increasing the number of nuclei in muscles, and these added nuclei don’t go away. So transgender women have a heightened ability to build strength even after they transition, Heather says.

One way to address these issues, Heather and her colleagues wrote in an essay published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, would be to create a handicap system that uses an algorithm to account for physiological parameters such as testosterone, hemoglobin levels, height, and endurance capacity, as well as social factors like gender identity and socioeconomic status. “Such an algorithm would be analogous to the divisions in the Paralympics, and may also include paralympians,” they write. Instead of two divisions, male and female, there would be multiple ones and “athletes would be placed into a division which best mitigates unfair physical and social parameters.” The algorithm would need to be sport-specific, and Heather and her colleagues acknowledge that producing it would be a difficult task.

Another approach would be to create a third category for people who don’t fit neatly into the male/female dichotomy (including intersex people, who are born with a mix of male and female traits). Although this might sound like a simple solution, Harper says that “As a transgender person myself, I don’t want to compete in a third category, which many people would see as a freak category.” It could also limit opportunities for transgender athletes if there are not enough of them to fill out a team or category.

For all the hand-wringing about transgender women ruining women’s sport, so far there’s little evidence of that happening. Although CeCé Telfer and June Eastwood garnered attention for their outstanding performances on women’s collegiate running teams, they are hardly the only transgender athletes in the NCAA. Helen Carroll is a LGBTQ sports advocate who worked on the NCAA transgender handbook. Through her advocacy work, she has interacted extensively with transgender athletes and she estimates there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 to 200 transgender athletes currently competing in NCAA sports. Most of them “you don’t hear a thing about,” she says, because their participation hasn’t caused controversy.

Sport can be a life-saver for transgender people, who are at high risk of suicide, Carroll says. “They’ve been fighting themselves and feeling like they were in the wrong body, and sport gives them a place to be happy about their body and what it can do.”

Where to draw the line between inclusiveness for transgender athletes and fairness for cis ones is an ethical question that ultimately requires value judgements that can only be informed, not decided, by science. Even basic notions of a level playing field aren’t easy to codify. Which means that at some point the question of who is a woman becomes a cultural inquiry: How athletically outstanding can a girl or woman be before we no longer see her as female?
 
So which approach is most fair? “Fair is a very subjective word,” says Joanna Harper, a transgender woman, distance runner, and researcher who served on the IOC committee that developed that organization’s current rules. It boils down to whom you’re trying to be fair to, Harper says. “To billions of typical women who cannot compete with men at high levels of sport?” Or “a very repressed minority in transgender people who only want to enjoy the same things that everybody else does, including participation in sports?”

A troon on the IOC is gonna be objective about this kind of thing? Okay, then.


How athletically outstanding can a girl or woman be before we no longer see her as female?

Why would anyone want to do this?
 
"TiMs might have physical advantages over women, but have you thought about the social disadvantages?"
It boils down to whom you’re trying to be fair to, Harper says. “To billions of typical women who cannot compete with men at high levels of sport?” Or “a very repressed minority in transgender people who only want to enjoy the same things that everybody else does, including participation in sports?”
At first, he talks about how most women aren't professional athletes and how it doesn't directly affect the majority of the female population, yet immediately after he shifts focus to the "repressed minority of trans athletes" even if the majority of trans people aren't going to be directly affected by policies regarding trans athletes' participation in high levels of sports either. Very cheeky!
 
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