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deep and confirmed that Jagger had sexual relations with David Bowie, guitarist Mick Taylor, band member Keith Richards, Austrian actor Helmut Berger, and others. Which is reassuring and not surprising, but... Keith Richards?! No Turning Back All hell broke loose in the “detransition” movement when one of its biggest stars, Ky Schevers, an nounced her decision to leave the movement and to retransition to the status of “transmasculine” (though she uses “she/her” pro nouns). On her way out the door she denounced the “detrans” movement and apologized for having spoken out against transi tioning and advocating its reversal. So, the first thing to remark here is that there is such a thing as the detransition movement; who knew? Its core belief is that “gender dysphoria” is a myth with origins in misogyny and internalized sexism. It likens gen der dysphoria to an addiction such as alcoholism, the cure for which is of course total abstinence (with help from twelve-step programs, higher powers, etc.). Those like Ky who’ve opted to re -transition describe their irrepressible desire to go back: “My sense of being a woman unraveled, and I was feeling more like a dude [than ever].” How many people have actually undergone de- and re-transitioning is hard to say. A2015 survey by the Na tional Center for Transgender Equality found that eight percent of those who had transitioned later detransitioned. The Williams Institute reports that 1.3 million U.S. adults identify as trans gender, which would yield about 100,000 who have detransi tioned. Not a vast number, but possibly enough to qualify for a letter in the LGBTQQIP 2 SAA lineup as it now stands.

(Miss Venezuela’s accusation of sexual harassment in 1996). Lately Trump has been going on anti-trans rants in speeches, adding a new touch of irony to the purchase. And a curious de tail: in 2013, Trump traveled to Russia to check out Moscow as a possible Miss Universe site, and he finagled a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Just weeks after Moscow was announced as the winning site, Putin signed the infamous law criminalizing “gay propaganda.” Coincidence? Perhaps, but—as in the story above—it’s remarkable how often Trump is just one degree of separation from the sleaziest action in the room.

Good to Know For gay guys of a certain generation, rock stars like Mick Jagger and David Bowie and Lou Reed played an outsize role in liberating the li bido from the straitjacket of, well, straightness. Still, there was always that slightly uneasy feeling that they may not have come by their androgyny hon

estly, that it was all just an act to sell records. Jagger, after all, has had four female partners or wives and has eight children (it’s two and two for Bowie). It may be vulgar to wonder whether these godlike figures ever actually did the nasty with another dude, but hey, we’re only human. There have been various cor roborations over the years, but a new book titled The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones, by Lesley-Ann Jones, has dug

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