I'm pretty okay with kids and even with kids who cry, because everyone was a kid once and people sometimes really have to travel with children. The only time I have problems with kids is when parents let their toddlers—who are old enough to have their own seat and can understand instructions—violently kick my seat for…

Because it can add between 50-100 to your flight costs and if you're traveling frequently the extra 20-30mins it takes to get to the baggage claim, get your baggage and get out really adds up.

OH MY GOD! A cis woman wanted to help us reclaim 'tranny'? I'm stunned. I used to use the word as a joke to myself and around my trans friends, but I mostly stopped the first time I had a gay man call me a 'tranny'. I was shocked by how much it hurt to hear someone on the outside use that word, even in a benign way.

What are your objections to 'cis' and how do you propose we have conversations about cis and trans people with out resorting to the clumsy, 'trans' and 'non-trans' or the old 'genetic male' or 'natal male' terminology? Personally, I only see 'cis' as a handy distincter when talking about trans issues as it's one of…

Sing me your song, sister! Tell me the many ways in which I, as an authoritarian, Nazi, floppy tire, boot, have kept you down and limited your potential. Please share with me the hateful ways that not calling me a tranny cuts you to the core and invalidates your very identity. I want to know your pain so that I might…

Well, it's a good thing you came along and opened my eyes to the slippery slope I was on. Now that you've pointed it out I do realize that genocide and authoritarian rule are the next logical step after asking people not to refer to you with a slur. Good catch. You are a hero to us all.

You started a conversation by telling me not to be a Nazi and you expected a serious response? You're so cute.

The life of hardship and persecution you endure has left me truly humbled. Thank you for opening my eyes to my blind privilege. I'm a better person for having had this exchange.

Let's be honest, you were going to say that no matter what I wrote.

I didn't see Paris is Burning until recently. It's one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.

Good.

So you get drunk and mash random buttons on your keyboard? Is this a hobby or a profession for you?

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I think a closer analogy might be a middle-class, light skinned black person telling a lower SES, dark skinned black person how they should deal with racial inequality. I mean for sure, both experience inequality, but they are vastly different experiences.

If they're fine with it, fine, but don't call me a tranny.

Yeah, honestly, most of my experience with the drag community was very early in my transition so 10-12 years ago and the women I knew were kind of using drag as a gateway to transition so my perception of the scene is probably pretty skewed—especially since my own transition track took a much more privileged turn (I…

Actually, I'm going to be more specific. I think in the drag community, tranny is most often used as an empowering term and there is a long history of drag being one of the few places that very feminine gay men and some trans women are able to feel empowered. But, some of the girls I've met from the ball scene…

I definitely get what you're saying, and I don't think it's because they're poor that they don't understand that it's a slur. I think it's because they live in a closed culture where that's the normal way of speaking and that is far removed from the concerns of white middle class transitioners. I'm not saying "oh my…

I completely agree that cis gay men need to stop using the term tranny, but I'm a little more cautious about telling drag queens how they need to refer to themselves. Drag culture has a much longer and deeper history than middle class white transsexual culture. For a very long time, drag and 'female review' shows were…

That's been happening since day 1.