Jenny, I am somewhat perplexed by your series of comments. We have communicated in the past and I thought we did so in a respectful and mutually supportive way. I have been rooting for you in your continuing evolution as a transmasc person. I thought you would be more sympathetic to the surprise and restrained confusion expressed by those who do not understand how gender critical people could pick on a trans woman by treating her as “less than” or “different than” and equating her success with some kind of threat to ciswomen in general. I must respectfully disagree with your assessment. Trans women are women and trans men are men. Since we began communicating many months ago, I have had the privilege of getting to know a trans masc man in person. He is as male as anyone I have ever met. I would never think of him otherwise. There are no sub categories, only different tales of origin.

I have written at times about how far Science and Medicine have come in understanding that sexual orientation and gender identity are fundamental and immutable in people. They are just as biologically based as primary sex characteristics. Structurally, trans brains are the same as those of the gender with which they identify, and they operate the same at the neurochemical level. We know so much more than when we presumptuously thought that these concepts were a matter of psychological pathology which could therefore be treated and cured. There is a physical difference between men and women, but not all of it resides between our legs; some is in the head and is unseen. It is the unseen part which is crucial to Jeopardy success—the part in Amy which is uniquely female. It is a woman who is enjoying the current success; no qualifiers are necessary. The fact that yet another gender stereotype has fallen should be applauded by people everywhere, but especially by feminists and all others with a female brain that it is a woman who is proving that females are at least the mental equals of males. I think feminists, who have pushed back for so long against the male patriarchy, should be particularly pleased. I for one am not insulting women by applauding her success; I am enjoying the vicarious participation in the accomplishments of another woman.