You are not alone! My parents (and I) live in the DC metropolitan area, and my mom is white and my dad is a Latino from Venezuela. They've been married for almost 26 years. And all through K-12, there were always several kids like me.
My understanding is that transgender means that your gender identity does not match up with the gender people assign to you, it's about having been misgendered. It has nothing at all to do with physical characteristics.
While some trans* people's experiences do reflect a "wrong body" narrative, some trans* people's do…
People seem to be debating the overall point of your comment, but since it's apparently unclear, it's great that you've brought this up.
Oh, that makes perfect sense.
I mean, there are various issues with that (intersex people, the way that it's virtually impossible to talk about sex without resorting to gendered language so why insist that sex is its own inherent thing, etc.), but even so: we aren't talking about sex, anyway. We're talking about gender. And what's at play is that…
But that's irrelevant. I can also go around and tell people I'm a vegetarian when I'm not and get access to special meals made for vegetarians (on planes and such), but that doesn't mean that we should stop believing people when they say they're vegetarians.
A grown transgendered woman (biological man) was trying to use the women locker room...
Wait, but we can't talk about silly menswear without talking about the grid pullover:
"She hasn't got a pretty face"?
Hmm, I don't recall anyone making you the final arbiter on this, and yet you phrase it as a capital "t" Truth.
That's funny, because I've seen plenty.
Well, I think it's a problem when by and large (not across the board, but mostly), people who look white in the US are just "normal" Americans, and most everyone else gets their nationality questioned. And for some people, it gets questioned to the point that it's quite a burden to manage and ends up communicating…
That sounds exhausting!
Uh, I don't know, I am not the final arbiter on other people's reactions to things.
I'm a fan. :)
OH MY GOD.
1. For the FIFTH time: his question was not asked in a medical context, it was absolutely, 100% an attempt at small-talk. It wasn't at all part of the pre-donation Q&A, it wasn't part of a set of questions, it wasn't being recorded in anyway, it was purely conversational.