You know, the "bathroom issue." Where should transgender people pee? It's an issue, you see (as I have been told time and time again) not with the transgender folks themselves, but with the potential for a "sexual predator to dress up as a woman" and enter the women's restroom or locker room, whereupon he would … Continue reading To Fix the Bathroom Issue…
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You Don’t Get To
Orlando. Orlando. I still can't wrap my mind around this. (In case you're living under a rock and hadn't heard, a gunman opened fire in an Orlando nightclub. Current estimates are 49 -- not counting the gunman -- dead and 53 injured. It was a gay club.) LGBT people were targeted. That seems pretty clear. … Continue reading You Don’t Get To
A Letter to the Transgender Community
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you weren't really on my radar growing up -- which maybe isn't too surprising, given that I was raised in the South, where non-cishet people are still legislated against and regularly shunned, shamed, and even attacked. Many of my family didn't want to acknowledge that the LGBT community existed at … Continue reading A Letter to the Transgender Community
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