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Not speculation. The authorities have already identified the two attackers and confirmed that they targeted Jews at a Hanukkah festival. Don't take refuge in silence.
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Not speculation. The authorities have already identified the two attackers and confirmed that they targeted Jews at a Hanukkah festival. Don't take refuge in silence.
They have both been identified by name and country of origin. Please don't close your eyes and pretend it's a mystery why a Hanukkah festival was attacked.
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
They have both been identified by name and country of origin. Please don't close your eyes and pretend it's a mystery why a Hanukkah festival was attacked.
Absolutely, whatever her excuses for it. But the claim that many "older" trans women -- women 20-30 years younger, who transitioned 20-30 years later in a very different world -- feel rhe same way, is simply false.
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Absolutely, whatever her excuses for it. But the claim that many "older" trans women -- women 20-30 years younger, who transitioned 20-30 years later in a very different world -- feel rhe same way, is simply false.
Renee Richards is 91. She's been very bitter for a long time about how her life went after her transition 50+ years ago. Really only the 3rd trans woman in the public eye ever in the USA. I know lots of "older" trans women (20-30 years younger) and not a single one has views anything like hers.
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Renee Richards is 91. She's been very bitter for a long time about how her life went after her transition 50+ years ago. Really only the 3rd trans woman in the public eye ever in the USA. I know lots of "older" trans women (20-30 years younger) and not a single one has views anything like hers.
Interesting that he carefully avoided mentioning that she was Jewish, despite using the memory/blessing language to signal empathy with Jews without antagonizing some of his supporters. Politicians have to walk a fine line. Too cynical?
July 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Interesting that he carefully avoided mentioning that she was Jewish, despite using the memory/blessing language to signal empathy with Jews without antagonizing some of his supporters. Politicians have to walk a fine line. Too cynical?
True for law review articles. Not true for memoranda of law submitted to courts. Nobody uses footnotes solely for that reason in a MOL. Doing so can be considered a way of trying to circumvent page limitations.
April 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
True for law review articles. Not true for memoranda of law submitted to courts. Nobody uses footnotes solely for that reason in a MOL. Doing so can be considered a way of trying to circumvent page limitations.
"TEF" as an alternative, but it never caught on. So one doesn't have to be Germaine Greer, Sheila Jeffreys, Mary Daly, or Janice Raymond to qualify as a TERF. Garden-variety transphobes like Helen Lewis and Pamela Paul clearly qualify. Nancy Mace, no. She's just a right-wing bigot.
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"TEF" as an alternative, but it never caught on. So one doesn't have to be Germaine Greer, Sheila Jeffreys, Mary Daly, or Janice Raymond to qualify as a TERF. Garden-variety transphobes like Helen Lewis and Pamela Paul clearly qualify. Nancy Mace, no. She's just a right-wing bigot.
In common parlance among trans people, "TERF" has been used for the last 10-15 years -- really ever since it was coined by Viv Smythe (Tig-Tog on the old Feministe site) circa 2008 --to refer to any self-identified feminist who's anti-trans, whether "radical" or otherwise. Some have suggested (1)
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In common parlance among trans people, "TERF" has been used for the last 10-15 years -- really ever since it was coined by Viv Smythe (Tig-Tog on the old Feministe site) circa 2008 --to refer to any self-identified feminist who's anti-trans, whether "radical" or otherwise. Some have suggested (1)
Please send him to the corn field.
March 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Please send him to the corn field.
Don't forget the giant cross that's been ptominently displayed at Auschwitz since 1985, when Carmelite nuns put it up. All the efforts by Jewish groups to have it removed have been unsuccessful.
February 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Don't forget the giant cross that's been ptominently displayed at Auschwitz since 1985, when Carmelite nuns put it up. All the efforts by Jewish groups to have it removed have been unsuccessful.
I'm pretty sure Trump has no idea what AfD is.
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm pretty sure Trump has no idea what AfD is.
It's been true for many years, long before this election, that 90% of the comments on trans-related articles in the NYT are anti-trans. Many of them virulently so. And almost all from self-identified Democrats and feminists. It's basically TERF Central Station.
February 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's been true for many years, long before this election, that 90% of the comments on trans-related articles in the NYT are anti-trans. Many of them virulently so. And almost all from self-identified Democrats and feminists. It's basically TERF Central Station.
Notice that Musk said melatonin when he meant melanin. What an idiot.
February 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Notice that Musk said melatonin when he meant melanin. What an idiot.
Actually, Republicans have consistently opposed efforts to prohibit marriages between 12 and 13 year old girls and 50 year old men in the states where it's legal with the parents' consent. So much for caring about children.
February 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Actually, Republicans have consistently opposed efforts to prohibit marriages between 12 and 13 year old girls and 50 year old men in the states where it's legal with the parents' consent. So much for caring about children.
They don't need her. They already have Helen Lewis as their house TERF.
February 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
They don't need her. They already have Helen Lewis as their house TERF.
At least Pamela Paul isn't there anymore.
February 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
At least Pamela Paul isn't there anymore.
It's important to know that Hirschfeld's library was included in the book burning. But I've seen a lot of people in trans circles presenting the event as if the Nazis were solely focusing on Hirschfeld's gay/trans research, making us "the first." Among the first would be more accurate.
February 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It's important to know that Hirschfeld's library was included in the book burning. But I've seen a lot of people in trans circles presenting the event as if the Nazis were solely focusing on Hirschfeld's gay/trans research, making us "the first." Among the first would be more accurate.
The Hirschfeld library wasn't the major focus of the famous May 10, 1933 book burnings in Berlin and elsewhere. It was only part of the ceremonial burning of thousands of looted books by "un-German" authors. See encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... . You can watch a brief film with Goebbels.
Book Burning
Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. The Nazi burning of books in May 1933 is perhaps the most famous in history. Learn more.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
February 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Hirschfeld library wasn't the major focus of the famous May 10, 1933 book burnings in Berlin and elsewhere. It was only part of the ceremonial burning of thousands of looted books by "un-German" authors. See encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... . You can watch a brief film with Goebbels.
I'm sure he ate some of it himself
January 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I'm sure he ate some of it himself
As you can see from her U.S. alien registration card identifying her as a citizen or subject of "none." In any event, I still find it nearly impossible to believe that there are 5 votes on SCOTUS for interpreting the 14th Amendment the way Trump wants -- precisely contrary to "originalism."
January 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
As you can see from her U.S. alien registration card identifying her as a citizen or subject of "none." In any event, I still find it nearly impossible to believe that there are 5 votes on SCOTUS for interpreting the 14th Amendment the way Trump wants -- precisely contrary to "originalism."
So they weren't actually "stateless" until the law depriving them of their nationality was enacted. So my mother, who came to England on the Kindertransport in Dec. 1938, still had German nationality until she became stateless in Nov. 1941. All her documents thenceforth identified her as such.
January 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
So they weren't actually "stateless" until the law depriving them of their nationality was enacted. So my mother, who came to England on the Kindertransport in Dec. 1938, still had German nationality until she became stateless in Nov. 1941. All her documents thenceforth identified her as such.
Indeed. But there was a distinction between German citizenship and German nationality. Even after being deprived of the right to vote and other attributes of citizenship, they were still considered German nationals and had the ability to get German passports (with a "J" eventually added to them). 1
January 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Indeed. But there was a distinction between German citizenship and German nationality. Even after being deprived of the right to vote and other attributes of citizenship, they were still considered German nationals and had the ability to get German passports (with a "J" eventually added to them). 1
Any Jews who hadn't already left Germany before they were deported to camps still had German nationality, and weren't stateless, at the moment of deportation. And of course many Jewish citizens of other countries were sent to death camps. So statelessness was not a prerequisite to murder. 2/2
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Any Jews who hadn't already left Germany before they were deported to camps still had German nationality, and weren't stateless, at the moment of deportation. And of course many Jewish citizens of other countries were sent to death camps. So statelessness was not a prerequisite to murder. 2/2
OK. Now I get what you're saying. Although technically the law of November 1941 collectively stripping German Jews of their nationality and rendering them stateless applied only to Jews who had already emigrated from the Reich (like my mother in late 1938 and her parents in June 1941). 1/2
January 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
OK. Now I get what you're saying. Although technically the law of November 1941 collectively stripping German Jews of their nationality and rendering them stateless applied only to Jews who had already emigrated from the Reich (like my mother in late 1938 and her parents in June 1941). 1/2