retail politics, the trans version

[sistawendy]

You may remember that a few weeks ago that I went to a rally against Initiative 1552, a so-called "bathroom bill" that puts bounties on the heads of trans people, including children. I took home an anti-1552 sign and put it in one of my front windows.

You may also recall that building manager P has been around my lake place lately to replace my water heater. (Yay!) But what you definitely can't recall is that P noticed the sign and asked about it, so I told him what I just told you.

I'm happy to say that P thinks 1552 is piffle. What I'm less happy to say, though, is that he said something like, "You look fine," as if that's material to the question of whether I should be beaten to death for using a public women's restroom.

I didn't point out that it isn't material. Was that wrong? The calculation that I made in that split second is that it isn't. I'm trying to spare myself and everyone like me one of those aforementioned beatings, and I need all the help I can get, including that of an octogenarian building manager, who is, all things considered, not a bad guy.

Comments

[matrixmann]

I see in the US these are always pretty hot topics that one never seems to get to boil down; though I can't get it, even in a logic way, how people get upon this and what they actually are afraid of.
Are they afraid of being molested from a direction that they would never expect?
Well, then happy feeling of what every woman needs to deal with regularly. Be it that she's pretty (all want her) or be it that she's ugly like Gollum or fat (all throw ambivalent talk towards you to hurt you in the groin). Men who don't look right to some or are overweight also have to endure this.
So - what's actually the point?
And when they want to be left alone, just think: Doesn't want everyone to be left alone and not molested for whatever reasons?
In that point all transsexuals have something very much in common with every other persons.

I don't get it why this doesn't occur to people and why they make a drama out of it? Are there no other more urgent problems to waste brains on?
Does this bathroom crap prevent anyone from starving or what? Does this generate world peace, create jobs and make everyone live in a prospering America? I don't really get it...