The cruelty is the point.

Good luck with that.

In the 80s I worked with a young woman who started transitioning while she worked on our team. She hadn’t gone thru surgery but had been doing hormone therapy, took a gender-neutral name, started identifying as male, and started using the mens restroom.

One day Sean was late for a meeting and one of the men said Sean was in the bathroom, he could tell because he has the smallest feet of any of the guys. No one blinked an eye or said anything derogatory. It made me happy to be on that team.

Sean moved on once he decided on surgery.

As far as the anti-trans assholes are concerned, trans boys ARE girls, trans girls ARE boys, and they all need to start acting like it.

The people who make these laws are sick fucks who don’t have a shred of empathy for anyone who doesn't act, believe, or feel the way the sick fucks think they should. The whole thing makes me, for lack of a better word, sick!

Also sad. And angry. Very, very angry.

Mind you, they don't think very much of trans males at all.. But notice how when these bills come up and the bullies screech like banshees, it's always trans females they go off about... "Trans people in the women's bathrooms" and "Lia Thomas" and all that shit.

I wish I could say they just lacked empathy.. It's beyond apathy and it's downright hatred at this point. Seems to be getting worse by the day too.

I think the subtext is misogyny. On an unconscious level, the idea of someone giving up their male privilege to live as a member of the "inferior" sex is extra horrifying to them. They can't allow themselves to admit that, so that emotion gets channeled into hysteria about "protecting" women and girls. That's my take, anyway.

I think they do hate all trans people. Their reaction to the m2f folks is the most hysterical, but they are equal opportunity haters.

A mixture of misogyny along with transphobia when it comes to trans females... Or some ignorant fear on their part that if they encounter a transwoman, voodoo magic or whatever will make them turn into women too.. Who knows with these fools?

Whatever it is, yeah.. It seems when this shit comes up, it's transwomen that are the targets. We don't hear Margarine Traitor Gangreene screaming about "What's the definition of a man?" when it comes to trans males.. Or trans males in the men's room.

The reactions would be hysterical if they weren't so terrifying...

Their have been rumors going around for years about her. I mainly heard about this from my state's only out lesbian legislator, Patricia Todd.