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Roadkill Centrist's avatar

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.

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Absolutely true.

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