I read the piece Speech about transgender surgery makes points for both sides ( link here ) in the Northern Star – “the all student-produced, independent media at Northern Illinois University” – with an increasing sense of frustration and a certain amount of headdesking at the seemingly inevitable display of rectal-cranial inversion demonstrated by high-powered cis academics. Once again, it seems, we have cis people Explaining Things to trans people while the cluephone forlornly rings unan