I get a lot of hate mail. 

And that’s fine. I signed up for it many years ago when I became an opinion columnist. When you give your opinion, people want to give theirs right back at you.

More recently, however, I’ve noticed a perplexing – and just plain weird – trend. 

Among the usual ad hominem attacks aimed at my appearance or intelligence, there’s something else: Readers keep accusing me of being transgender (and not in a nice way). One individual went so far as to run my column photo through artificial intelligence to “turn” me into a man. That was somewhat creative, at least.

This feedback happens more frequently whenever I write critically about gender identity or keeping biological men out of women’s sports, so I have to assume the insults are coming from the pro-transgender crowd. That holds its own irony. 

Sadly, I’m far from alone in being on the receiving end of this........

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