TRANS AWARENESS

 I would file this under my usual feature, Stop the Car, I Smell an Ignorant Bitch, because these people and the topic are far from ignorant bitches. But it is alarming and shows just what our trans brother and sisters must go through. The first is the great bathroom debate, which I'm so sick of hearing about. If a person identifies as the sex they are and is passible, I see no harm or need for hysteria to them using the bathroom of choice, and people need to lighten up for Pete's sake. Besides that, most bathrooms have individual stalls these days, not to mention, just make the bathrooms with locks on the doors or put in a third unisex room. I saw this clip of a trans man from Laverne Cox's Insta, explaining how nuts the right-wing plans to keep trans folk out of bathrooms which don't match their birth sex. No one who sees Nikson, with his beard and male pattern baldness in a men's room is going to notice anything different. Same with a trans woman who looks pretty much like a woman...I have a few trans women friends and they are gorgeous...one would never know and they blend right in. But Nikson gives a passionate speech and argument how something so simple has become a huge mole hill of a hot button topic. I still say that implementing single occupancy bathrooms is a solution which would solve everything, but we shouldn't have to do that. I could care less who's in the bathroom when I'm in there as long as you wash your hands!

Then another page I follow of trans activists Lelaina Faye recently analyzed Pete Buttigieg's approach to LGBT rights, specifically a trans question asked during a town hall by a lady in the crowd, asking if he could solve the trans problem in her question what he would do. Mind you I have, and will always love Pete, and he is a great and caring person, well-meaning and mannered and very intelligent. I'd still vote for him, but I agree here with Lelaina, and I'm glad she dug into Pete's candidate style answer. While I love him, he, being a member of the LGBTQ should be able to answer this simple question: What would you do?" That was the bar and I feel he slithered under it. It does send me a red flag. Mind you, I'm not trans, but we are all one community. This should be a no brainer to answer. It does shock me that he didn't give a clear answer, and it reminded me of too many to mention politicians who refuse to have a clear answer, and take a firm stand on something.

Don't worry Pete, I still love and adore you but try a bit harder next time at the bat...out trans brother and sister need you....and your still more Presidential than Biden, Harris, and Trump combined.