OMG mediaevalfaerie's based mom. 'It's not like anyone can tell you're transgender." And instead of being glad that they're safe, phew, mediaevaldfaerie sulks: but mom, you don't get it, I'm in danger, people might look at me funny or even misgender me, don't you care?

We make up such a tiny portion of the population that we are ignored.

You've got a lot of issues but being ignored isn't one of them.

Another person complaining about not being able to go to Italy:

This really hit home, specifically because I was supposed to go to Italy this summer with my family. Anyone I speak to about this that isn't trans looks at me like I'm overreacting. I'm tired of it and I'm missing out on fun things, but surviving and self-preservation feel more important right now.

Like, what the fuck does she think is going to happen to her in Italy, of all places? It's not Saudi Arabia. This is a woman, by the way.

OK this is hilarious. People look at me because I dress weird!! And how awful that other people have no empathy!! 'Risk of death'??

What states is that truck driver going to, that would “arrest him just for getting out of the truck”?? I need to know so I can move there LMFAO

I was wondering what the janitor was so worried about, then I realized his social media is probably full of porn selfies and cannibal stories and that's why he could lose his job at the school. Otherwise, no way is he getting fired just for "being out" on his social media.

Also, isn't that Texas bill just about falsifying your sex on ID documents? It's not a blanket ban on cross-dressing.

I was recently asked if I wanted to go to Texas for an event without him realizing that there’s a chance I could be arrested for existing.

Okay, so I assume this man is referring to HB 3817, a bill which has not passed and is unlikely to pass.

HB 3817 would make it a state jail felony for a person to “identify” to a state agency or private employer their “biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth.”

I'm guessing these people read "scare headlines" and get themselves all worked up for nothing. This is not a law, and even if it were a law, the only possible way he could get in trouble would be if he claimed to a state agency that his biological sex was female.

How does this prevent him from visiting Texas?

I’m just…so done. With all of them. They’re using women’s words and mimicking us. Like a terrifying parrot, they pantomime what we do and say as the world tries to erode our rights and they yank the pieces apart.

They can take the costume off. I can’t change my body and genes. I want to smack them until they gain some perspective.

Love this post title

What a feast of snark! “I’m non-binary, MOM” and “let’s say, hypothetically, I get sent to prison for some reason” have already been covered, so I’m going to go with:

the poor MIL whose daughter’s husband decided to live his fetish full time and now that means she can’t take her grandkids to Disney World.

The public school janitor who’s afraid someone will notice he’s been posting fetishistic cross-dressing trans content to social media was a top contender, but the part where he works around kids makes him more alarming than funny.

I wonder if some of the hand-wringing around travel is just…garden-variety anxiety? I know a few people who had travel anxiety before covid, and who eagerly seized “but covid!” as an excuse not to go anywhere ever again. If you admit (to yourself or two others) that you are anxious about travel, there’s a follow-on expectation that you will begin the hard work of learning to manage your anxiety, so that it’s not holding you back from the life you want to live. “But covid!” or “but transphobia!” is a convenient get-out-of-mental-health-work-free card.

(The same also applies to shit you just don’t want to do; the same people I know who still say “but covid!” when asked to fly anywhere have adopted the same strategy for things like going to their kids’ friends’ birthday parties.)