I don't think adding more gender options would solve anything. Discovering what pronouns and gender you identify is more of a self thing. You've got to try them all on and find the one or ones that just fit right. No one can tell you which ones to identify with and sometimes there isn't a label for who you are. My "Epic Journy" or "EJ" as my mom calls it is full of changing pronouns and identities back and forth discovering new ones and creating my own. It's great that people are starting to change, but setting in stone more "options" isn't going to change much in my opinion.

I believe we should teach ourselves to use it in every introduction we make like, "Hello my name is Karry Knight, I'm a student at CSU, and my pronouns are he/his/him and she/her/hers" If we make it a normal part of our routine people won' t freak out about asking people what pronouns they use.

The idea of pushing gender on someone has always made me feel uncomfortable. Luckily I was blessed with parents who were understanding and let me and my sisters discover ourselves when we were children and didn't push who they wanted us to be on us.

My grandfather always says that men's brains are heavier because they never use them.

GENDER ROLES ARE DEAD!

Why can't people understand that just because someone happens to fit the criteria and speaks up about their beliefs and experiences doesn't automatically make them the spokesperson for that identity? Not everything they say is set in stone and are the rules for every single person who identifies the same way that one person does. Every individual is unique and don't necessarily have to believe or feel the same way a person who identifies the same way does. We all have our own backgrounds and ideologies that make us who we are and our differences are what make us so beautiful and human.

I understand why the author included this, but I can't help but think there will be some people that panic and start believing they are infected too. I guess that would be worst case scenario, but you can't dismiss the possibility.

I'm currently in Virginia and when I heard about this story I instantly wanted to know more information. The purpose of this article is to inform the public of this infection. The author is probably emotionally invested in this because the victim was a 18 year old girl, and the author is a mother.

Who are these women and children that said that their afraid? Where they afraid to use public bathrooms before the bill was passed? Do they understand what being transgender means or were they told that a bill was passed that allows men and women to use whatever bathroom they want? I think that you should educate the public with both sides of the argument before asking the public's opinion on the bill.

Was the dance the "catalyst" for Adnan's rage or was it Hae's feelings for Don? Both are key points in the State's case against Adnan and for Koenig's belief that jealousy wasn't Adnan's reason for killing her.

Everything you say to "them" can be used some way

Connects with the teacher's comment about how teenagers are dark. She meant what she said because she's been surrounded by them enough, but not in the way the court took it.

This goes against the States story of him being so angry and torn up about the fact that he was lying to his family. His brother and father didn't make a big deal of it and his mother already found out.

How many misunderstandings like this one were presented as evidence and used? The diary and Adnan's religion were key points the State used against him.

How could this be used as evidence? She's all over the place!

Can "they" (the prosecution, cops, and people in the trial) really use her diary as evidence of what her and Adnan's relationship was really like. Teenagers blow things out of proportion and are overly emotional when it comes to romance, but the prosecution uses her diary more so than what her and Adnan's friends say.

This is Koenig's thesis and main focus in episode 2 of Serial podcast.

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