Dead Wild Roses: Limits in Society

Having established norms and boundaries in society is a good thing.  Is the balance between personal freedom and what is good for society perfect? Of course not. But the current system which is always under small scale revision, is a reasonable way forward.  The basis of this incremental move toward

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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Untangling Sex

The discourse around transgender people often breaks into two sides screaming at each other, one arguing that 'gender is a social construct', and the other stamping their feet and yelling that such an argument denies the biological realities of women.  Both positions are correct from certain perspectives, but the "biological"

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: On Gender Identity

I was born in 1950 at a time when spouses were specifically excluded from rape laws and homosexuality was illegal. Homosexuality was only whispered about in “polite company” and people with a gender identity or gender expression that differed from their assigned sex did not exist, and by that I

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