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No matter how fervently we shout, judge, or legislate, children’s bodies will still have been affected by all the chemicals to which they were subjected.
Children deserve care that helps their bodies match their brains … especially since our cavalier treatment of these children’s environment has probably helped cause the mismatch.
Andrew Solomon, androgens, biological sex, chemical exposure, chromosomal sex, David Cole, David French, developmental biology, discrimination, endocrine disrupting chemicals, endocrine disruptors, exposure to endocrine disruptors, Far from the Tree, fetal exposure, gender, gender affirming care, gender affirming care ban, gender legislation, health, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy, hormones, HRT, intersex, Jim Sinclair, legislation, lifestyle, medical care for minors, parental rights, patient rights, Performance All The Way Down, poetry, puberty blockers, restricting medical care, Richard Prum, Ross Gay, sex determination, sexuality, SRY, Supreme Court, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Tennessee, testosterone, Thank You, transgender, transphobic legislation, urgency of medical care, wellness
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On urgency and gender-affirming medical care.
Sometimes, young people are right to be infuriated by our lack of urgency.
access to medical care, age discrimination, Emily Bazelon, estrogen, gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gender, gender transition, gender-affirming medical care, hormone blockers, hormone therapy, LGBTIA+, medical care, medical transition, medicine, nonbinary, patience, psychology, puberty, puberty blockers, queer youth, restricting medical care, testosterone, The Battle Over Gender Therapy, transgender, transition, transitioning, urgency
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On the apparent rise in transgender and non-binary identities.
Our culture has changed, but so has the environment, and we need to acknowledge both.
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On bad penis puns.
Modern English is built on a foundation of The King James Bible and William Shakespeare – the former, plagiarized from a person we burned on the stake for his efforts; the latter, Lord Regent of Bad Penis Puns, as though his very name compelled him: Willy-I-Am Shake-Spear, Billy Wagcock, old I am a dick now…
bad puns, Barbara Hamby, capon, Christopher Logue, competition, consensual nonmonogamy, cooperation, education, Emily Wilson, Entitled, etymology, Eugenia Cheng, fornicate, gender, history of English, humor, hysteria, James Joyce, jealousy, Joyce, Kate Manne, Mansplaining, Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, men, mythology, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, patriarchy, Penelope's Lament, penis, penis puns, poetry, polyamorous, polyamory, puns, scortatory, sex, sexuality, Shakespeare, slang, teaching, Telemachus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses, vagina, vulgar slang, War Music, women, X+Y
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On grammar in Latin and English.
Based on the history of English usage, singular “they” is even more acceptable than singular “you.”
Dennis Baron, English grammar, gender, grammar, high school, history of English grammar, history of word use, Latin grammar, misinformation, nonbinary, nonbinary pronoun, nonbinary pronouns, parenting, pronoun, pronoun usage, pronoun use, pronouns, raising children, raising kids, reading aloud, reading to children, reading to kids, school, singular they, singular you, trying to use Latin grammar rules for English writing, word usage
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On Ann Leckie’s ‘The Raven Tower.’
You should read Ann Leckie’s ‘The Raven Tower,’ a beautiful novel set in a fascinating world.
A Century of Denial in Medicine, animal cognition, animal communication, animal language, animal welfare, Ann Leckie, Aristotle, babies, Babies Don’t Feel Pain, battle of the gods, biology, children, circumcision, compliments, confirmation bias, David Chamberlain, difference between gender and biological sex, do fish feel pain, elective surgery, fantasy novels, fish, fish pain, flawed assumptions, Frans de Waal, gender, genital mutilation, gods battling, human infants, hurting infants, hurting newborns, infant, Irad Kimhi, language, Mama’s Last Hug, mathematics, non-human animal cognition, non-human language, objectification, objectification of non-human animals, observational biology, philosophical argumentation, philosophy, prayer, primacy of language use, progressive fantasy, quantum computing, scientific ignorance, set theory, superposition of states, the emotions of babies, The Raven Tower, Thinking and Being, translating mathematics into words, vaccination, world building
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More on violence against women … sexism, in particular.
This is second in a series. Find the first essay here. Given that I’ve been writing about violence against women in a university setting, it’s probably worth slapping together an essay about the paucity of female professors, specifically in the sciences. And this is something that’s been addressed quite often, so quite possibly you’ve read a…
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