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Quick Hit: A Boy's Life
Feministing — The Atlantic has a huge piece on transgender children out - what do you think of it?

A Boy's Life
Ross Douthat — ... that's responsible for the existence of all these blogs in the first place. If you're one of those people, I recommend taking a couple hours off from the Presidential race this afternoon to dig into Hanna Rosin's phenomenal piece on Brandon/Bridget Simms and the debate over sex changes for children. I don't have any gloss on the story, except to say that it's magazine journalism at it's finest - it's always fascinating, often deeply sad, sometimes infuriating, and you should definitely read ...

Transgender In A Small Town
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... far more interesting, inspiring, and instructive. Away from the coasts and the urban havens, a vibrant transgender-rights movement is slowly emerging across the mountain and plains states. Through increased visibility, community building, legislative outreach, and face-to-face public education in churches, schools, and neighborhoods, trans people are building a foundation for equality in some of the nation's most conservative regions. If you haven't read it already, Hanna Rosin's article on transgender children is a small masterpiece. ...

Transgender Children
Feministing — ... There's a really in depth piece in this month's Atlantic about the growing movement to honor the wishes of transgender children and all the complexities therein. Though I don't claim to be anything near an expert on this issue, I thought that writer Hanna Rosin did a commendable job of bringing in plenty of diverse opinions and exploring so many different angles (and truth be told, I was shocked that the usually stodgy Atlantic devoted so much precious real estate to the issue). ...

Transrace and transgender (by Suzie)
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... , I argued that it would be hard to isolate cultural influences when searching for a biological basis for transgender. When a boy wants to wear a dress or play with baby dolls, how do we determine whether he’s driven by biology or culture? ...

Stats And Subjectivity
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... again, if you were circumcised as a newborn, how would you ever know the difference? Wouldn't your range of sensitivity adjust accordingly? (Unless the procedure was botched, of course.) It's an incredibly nuanced debate, which, by the looks of the many passionate emails to Hanna, won't go away soon.  In fact, many of its themes - namely, of parents making an irreversible medical decision for their child - are similar to the ones found in her Atlantic piece on transgender children; I highly recommend it. Here's a taste: For years, ...