One “test” a trans friend of mine offers on, call it the “bathroom discourse”, is to offer pictures of Buck Angel and Aubrey (something), both trans adult actors/activists, and ask “who are you sending into the woman’s loo?”
Anti-bathroom folks tend to sputter because their answer SHOULD be Buck but he looks so obviously male (as he IS, as a male transsexual), that they see the corner they are in and can’t answer.
Male transitioners - at the mean - “pass” more clearly and fully than female transitions. The furor doesn’t boil down to “biological males in the bathroom” so much as “you don’t LOOK like a (pretty) woman so ick”. It’s the reason trans activists have been pointing out the inherent alignment in anti-misogyny even as many anti-trans feminists try to refuse the reality that common cause.
And, have you seen pictures of trans men? And you want them to be force to play as their gender on their birth certificates?
One “test” a trans friend of mine offers on, call it the “bathroom discourse”, is to offer pictures of Buck Angel and Aubrey (something), both trans adult actors/activists, and ask “who are you sending into the woman’s loo?”
Anti-bathroom folks tend to sputter because their answer SHOULD be Buck but he looks so obviously male (as he IS, as a male transsexual), that they see the corner they are in and can’t answer.
Male transitioners - at the mean - “pass” more clearly and fully than female transitions. The furor doesn’t boil down to “biological males in the bathroom” so much as “you don’t LOOK like a (pretty) woman so ick”. It’s the reason trans activists have been pointing out the inherent alignment in anti-misogyny even as many anti-trans feminists try to refuse the reality that common cause.
Absolutely true.
Great point!!!!!