Bathroom bills are a huge opportunity for trans men to engage in loud, insistent, obnoxious civil obedience. Remember, you can follow the rules and still pee standing up, with the door open, then wash your packer out in the sink of the ladies' room.
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It will cause a change in legal phrasing around the presence of particular genitalia. Emphasizing differences rarely wins culture wars; emphasize the ways we are the same. Gay marriage won because straight people decided gay couples were like them & should be treated as such.
This is going to have to be one of those agree to disagree moments. You can't avoid all conflict and hope the good people will see you're right. You have to highlight the absurdity and injustice you're faced with in ways that grab attention and make people uncomfortable.
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Demonstrations of injustice only catalyze change when the victim is clearly innocent of wrongdoing and is subject to unjust force. Being rude in bathrooms won’t convince people you’re innocent of wrongdoing & a victim of injustice. It will just convince them you are Other.
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But if I convince women that I am other, I've won. I want people to understand that I'm not a woman.
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