Kat this is an awesome article and should really be required reading for anyone going for their LGBTQ-ally card

Yeah! I was reading about that and the article was acting like it was such a positive portrayal - I mean, I is definitely awesome to see the LGBTQ community in comics gain a new (old) member, but if my ‘friend’ read my mind and insisted on defining a part of my identity I would be really upset.

It seems like it should be basic material, but you’d be surprised!

good food, wide seats, clean restrooms, and safe for kids- all unavailable anywhere in the EPL, for one

Why thank you :)

Mind. Blown.

If there’s any world in which you would choose to be a TERF, I want nothing to do with you as a person. That’s awful. “Erasure” of cis women, for fucks sake.

As someone who also travels for her job, I know exactly what you mean!

That’s the problem with the Golden Rule: it should be “do unto others as they would have you do unto them”. You most certainly do get to tell me how to view you - we can define our identities how we wish, and respecting others by treating them as they would like to be treated - not how you would want to be treated -…

Expecting people to see you as 100% female when you were born with male genitals is unrealistic.

Being transgender is not the same as being an expat. How dare you. I’m done with you.

Thanks for the condescension. I appreciate that when I presented a lived experience that differed from your preconception and, frankly, showed you up, you decided to demean my tone instead of my identity. I prefer it, personally.

No, I’m here to tell that it is an impossibly consequential thing to me. Have you felt the hollow, empty feeling in your chest that comes from knowing that 22 years of your life, that you will never get back, were wasted because of one simple chromosome? Have you ever wanted to kill yourself or take a knife to your…

Game, set and match, beets.

You’ve had much more patience than I mustered.

But the world treats us very much as though we are,

Cassie, I <3 you so much right now. You’re my commenting hero!

This is kind of a disgusting comment. I am not an “experiment”. Regardless of what’s between my legs I have never been a boy or a man. You write:

Trans women are women. There’s no difference.

Every argument you’ve made on this thread hinges on your experiences. You don’t identify with gender, so no non-XX woman is allowed to claim womanhood. You are part of a “religious minority” so intersectionality is bullshit. You don’t see why telling women such as myself that they will never be true women because they…