If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.