Personal insults now. Do you wonder why anyone is prepared to listen?
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“most say the majority of women accept them as such.” I’ve been thinking about this since you said it yesterday.
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For me, working or being friends with someone trans and learning to trust that they are who they say they are is a pathway to acceptance. I would make the effort to be friendly because I know what it’s like to be different.
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It would be very different to discover the person sent to fit your bra in a shop is non-passing trans. That is the kind of position where I might feel vulnerable because I see them as men. I would query why a man would choose such a job.
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Oddly enough, I probably wouldn’t object to a camp man in the same job (I hope that terminology is not offensive).
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I can’t tell you if that’s prejudice, or if it’s fear. It feels like fear to me, but I’m told it’s prejudice and that worries me. But base reactions are there. Sometimes they are justified, sometimes not.
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And that, of course is not a situation relevant to the discussion, but perhaps it’s a perspective on how women might be feeling.
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I would probably avoid going back to the shop. Women here are saying they avoid changing rooms for that reason. Hospitals? Women’s shelters? These are places where women need to feel safe.
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I am aware that trans people need protection and they should have it. I’m just not sure giving them complete rights to use women’s spaces is the answer.
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