Recent content by melvin

Ah, so now embarrassment is the crucial variable. Remind me again why the embarrassment of a transgender person is a legitimate reason for nondiscriminatory (allegedly) bathroom arrangements, but the embarrassment of non-transgender individuals is not? In one case, it is regarded in the gravest...

There indeed is a mountain of evidence on the stark differences between males and females courtesy of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The stuff coming out of arts & humanities is justly called "anti-science."

You could not be more incorrect. Until quite recently, I would have agreed with the dominant opinions in this thread. Being honest with myself, I was not looking at the issue skeptically. We discriminate all the time. Sometimes it is rational, sometimes it is irrational. Is it irrational to...

If no one should care who is sharing a bathroom, then why should a transgendered person care about going into men's or women's-only bathrooms? And, furthermore, if you generally cannot tell who is and who is not, then there really is no issue, is there? Of course, we all know better than that...

Does this include members of Congress?

We're in the middle of a discussion of an issue that is virtually bereft of anything approaching scientific evidence. I will more than cop to the admission that I have no poll or study on this particular claim. If you are really interested, post some picture of some trans people and some...

Here's a poll cited by HuffPo, which, if you don't visit there, pretty much puts on a full-court press shaming campaign trying to browbeat people towards embracing all of this. Frankly, I would be surprised if it isn't higher than 59%. I have little doubt if you asked Americans, "Do you want...

Oh, without question there are some folks who really could pass for the opposite gender. The vast majority? Not even close.

Believing you are a dragon? Completely irrational. Believing your arm or leg is not really your own? Again, irrational. Believing you were born with the wrong sex organs? Totally rational.

Yep, this is another examples of something people say that makes them feel good but they know it isn't true.

That's a fairly impressive imagination. Kudos. Now, back to reality. I'm under no illusions that anything can be policed with regards to who uses which bathrooms in our current climate. The folks who want this will get what they want and indeed are getting what they want. I sit here as a...

Maybe he or she already does? One could easily perform acts of mercy like the ones you mention and still have time to express disagreement with your point of view on this issue based upon his/her religious beliefs or even out of simple skepticism. I fall into the latter category, myself...

This is a quintessential example of something that sounds good to say, and everyone nods their heads in solemn agreement, but everyone knows isn't true. In fact, most of the time, you and I and everyone else recognizes right away when someone has taken, or attempted to take on, the identity of...

You can try to socially engineer and shame people however you wish, but most women will always be uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with males, particularly males they do not know. I suspect males will mostly be uncomfortable with gender neutral bathrooms because they will fear that the prospect...

There is no shortage of 22 year-olds graduating from middle to lower-tier public universities in the United States who will jump at $50,000 per year jobs coming fresh out of college. They're a dime a dozen, actually. Now, people who have the knowledge and ability to step in and perform the...