I’m friends with one of my old senseis on FB. He’s kind of a wingnut, today he posted something about Tia Thompson a trans woman volleyball player in Hawaii who is planning on trying out for the Olympic team in 2020. Of course, many of the comments on the post were of the wingnutty “It’s a man” “that’s not fair having men play against women” etc etc etc variety. I’ve tried, rather rationally, I think, to explain the process and the effects of hormone replacement therapy. But again, responses are “nope, still a man.”

I can understand someone not understanding what transgender people go through. I can understand someone not understanding the science behind it. But I can’t understand, for the life of me, how anyone could be so intellectually incurious that they won’t take the time to do even the most basic reading on a subject (I mean to the point of the “nope still a man” comment was in response to, “do a google search for before and after photos).