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One of the signatories of an open letter against cancel culture has recanted her support of the initiative. Around 150 writers, academics and activists signed a pice published by Harper's Magazine in which they denounce the "restriction of debate." .... Author Jennifer Finney Boylan has recanted her support of the letter, saying she wasn't aware of who else had signed the letter. Finney Boylan tweeted: "I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I...

At the end of the long weekend when my daughter came out as transgender, she headed back to her car with her girlfriend. I watched them from my apartment window as they packed up. My child looked up, and waved. Then she drove off. I closed the window. Tears rushed to my eyes. She’s saying goodbye, I thought. I’ll never see her again. This, of course, turned out to be malarkey. In the months to come I’d see her lots of times, and each time she seemed happier, and more herself. You’d think that as a transgender person myself, I’d...

IT was snowing in Maine on Jan. 9. I’d been to the dentist’s the day before. The staff there were pleasant enough when I changed genders 12 years ago. “We’ll just change your forms,” the receptionist had said, cheerfully. “It’s no problem.” That day, Papi Edwards, 20, a transgender woman of color, was shot to death outside a hotel in Louisville, Ky. If you’d told me in 2000, as a transgender woman just coming out, that I was a person of privilege, I’d have angrily lectured you about exactly how heavy the burden I’d been carrying was. It had nearly...

The Cornell golf club championship is next weekend, and I had been planning [brag alert] to defend the senior men's title I won last year. But now, I just might have to think about entering the women's division instead. The field is much smaller, not nearly as tough, and playing from the red tees should give me quite an advantage. But what if tournament organizers balk at my entry, you ask? No problem. I'd just toss down a copy of Jennifer Finney Boylan's New York Times op-ed column of today. The thesis of The XY Games is that "gender is...