Be sceptical: its good for you, and good for them.

OK, so I'm sceptical about AGW. That's the right thing to be: sceptical. That's what a good scientist is.

Just like I'm not phobic about anything, but sceptical about lots of things, things that I expect to prove themselves, not expect me to fall for them  HL&S.

I am therefore:

• trans-sceptic

• homo-secptic 

• Islamo-sceptic

Not phobic, just sceptic.

Transgender hoodwink

How the legbiter rainbow works

3 Genders?

Sure, in English there are three genders. Most nouns are implicitly neuter; ungendered in fact. Apart from that there is masculine and feminine. Generally these relate to the biological sexes.

Three genders, but only two sexes.

Just check your chromosomes, the'll tell you your sex, or do a below the waistline search. That'll tell you too.

What about intersex/trans-sex. These are deformities or abnormalities, usually non-functional so are of no species-significance; let's therefore not worry about them, while empathising for their sufferers.

Sex differntiation in language is culturally significant because the two sexes are needed to make babies. Helps to know where to look for a mate and clarifies language references, also given the general range of inclinations of the different sexes.

Now it gets confusing. The desire to label and categorise every grade of variation between male and female is a modern conceit and fails to accept the wide range of behaviour, interests and proclivities within each sex. A guy can be sweet and arty, a girl can be tough and 'ballsy'. Still male and female respectively: these are the biologically active differences, and that, socially is all that matters.

Folau

Letter sent to me by a friend:

Folau is right in a way: his religion is based in a tribal belief. Tribes rejected homosexuality because it represented an existential threat to the survival of the tribe. Islam is similar, except the Koran of course calls for death to homosexuals, but for the same reasons.

There is a sound evolutionary reason for Folau's remarks as well. Any species seeks to preserve itself, therefore members of the species will seek to reject any anti-reproductive members as a threat. So Folau has both science and history well on his side.

However, having done religion in school, I can tell him what he should have said: "I can't see into anyone's soul, but we know that those who live in rejection of the God will stay in that rejection for ever if they do not seek to live in the God's family."

LGBTIQ -- the T-shirt you'll want to have

The walking sewer

Its about to run again, and, yes, you guessed it, Oxford St. Sydney:

Just don't!

Some thing remarkable is about to happen: homosexual debauchery season is upon us. Apparently this season creates a public health risk (I always wondered why HIV was so prevalent in some groups). Just don't play pipe cleaners with your pals' arse; pal. And we grace this lot with the noble estate of marriage!

LGBTIQWTF

I am indebted to Mark Latham for this unique, charming and entirely delicious extension of the legbiters calling card.