She’s Havanese.

I had to get a special doula when I have birth to my cat, one who wouldn’t judge me for rolling the placenta up and smoking it in a joint.

You would lie to yourself in order to convince yourself that there are easily-determined differences between cigs and trans women.

I do believe that you are lying, perhaps even to yourself, that you have such excellent trans-dar.

This to you, too. <3

“While I’m disappointed that I will have to spend my final school year being singled out and treated differently from every other guy, I will do everything I can to make sure that other transgender students don’t have to go through the same experience.”

Ah, I see, you’re one of those tiresome folks who always insists that they can ID a trans person in 99 out of 100 cases. I’ve been interacting with you so far under the assumption that you hadn’t yet made up your mind about trans folks and trans rights. Well, I will invite you to take your unsourced claims…

I agree that argument, as it stands, sucks; it erases not only gender-nonconforming people, but trans people who can’t, or don’t want to, “pass”. It’s very effective, though. A lot of people will reflexively think “OMG, can’t have (strawman stereotype of transwomen) in the women’s toilets, force them back into the…

My teen is mid transition and deciding which bathroom they should use is scary either way.

Yeah, they still have to operate with the last ruling issued. What is probably not going to make them feel much better is that they may be totally out of HS before any of this is resolved, since that is where the stumbling block seems to be.

I was working as an attorney at a law firm when I transitioned, and there was one staff member who gave me a truly hateful look every time she was in the women’s room when I entered, and then stomped out and slammed the door. Kind of humiliating. But I didn’t make a complaint, because the last thing I needed or…

Gavin was using unisex bathrooms at the time the complaint was filed. (I read the trial court and appellate court filings but I haven’t read the SCOTUS briefings.)

This is my hometown - and however shitty you think it is, times it by 500 and that’s how actually shitty it is. This kid is monumentally brave - there’s one high school in Gloucester County (I don’t think there are even any private high schools in the county). The willpower to stay this course is tremendous.

Yes. That’s the risk. Early in my transition I could choose to use the women’s restroom, and get screamed at for being a boy in the restroom, or going in the men’s and getting beaten up. Hell, I worked at a law firm, and a coworker came at me in the men’s room. A freaking law firm.

Yeah, I’m hopeful that at worst, they’ll split 4-4. But who even knows, these days?

OMG, please don’t fuck this up Supreme Court. I still remember early transition and the constant fight to find bathrooms. It’s so big a deal, that today even sporting a bushy beard, I walk into public bathrooms like I’m walking into a war zone. I’m not sure I will ever take walking into a public restroom for granted.

So bigots learn that if they make things too dangerous for those they hate, they will get their way?

Cis boys are in danger of being assaulted in restrooms, too. In any case, the risk that ending discrimination against a class of people will put some members of that class in danger isn’t a compelling reason to continue discriminating against them. That reasoning has been rightfully rejected when it was used to oppose…

Well, perhaps that should be dealt with AS ASSAULT and not as an issue of the victim? And then also, maybe we could work on our culture to stop tolerating kids and adults perpetrating violence based on gender and sexuality?