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As far as Gays are concerned trans people have the right to be protected from abuse, but they are wary of them for the most part because of the fact that they essentially undermine the gay position. It was explained to me by a gay friend that trans people are viewed as being outsiders because they are essentially in gay men/ gay women trying to pretend to be the other genders, and expecting special treatment that goes beyond the issues that Gay men are interested in. So it's very hard for them to feel solidarity on things like toilets, or them having dating issues, as well as undermining gay rights by making a mockery of genders.
From the lesbian perspective MTF completely have undermined the Lesbian community by trying to invade their exclusive spaces and want to be treated as equals even though by the Lesbian metric it's a heterosexual in a wig no matter how good they pass. As well as the equal invasion of men into classically feminist spaces, a ideology that has stronger support in the Lesbian community, has led to the creation of terms like TERF's. When it's literally just a woman wanting a female only space, regardless of what someones assumed gender is.
The bi-sexuals are the odd ones out. Another major problem that the alphabet mafia is finding out, is that these trans people and their activist allies have assumed positions of power inside of their advocates and activist groups, so that the silent majority of gays and lesbians are essentially being silenced by bullying tactics. They can't go against their own community for fear of ostracism, and at the same time don't actually believe that trans-people or trans-rights are as big or important of an issue as they are made out to be. At the same time you have the double edged sword in the fact that these activist organisations have won their great battles, like the civil rights did for blacks in the sixties, and now like them it's going to be a case of diminishing returns, because all they know is how to do activism.
Here is a story:
I am at the pediatrician's office in Downtown LA. The doctor shares two bathrooms, M and W, with a few random inocuous offices on the same floor.
My children and I have to use the toilet, so I dutifully get the women's key, setting off to take care of business.
I turn the key and I encounter a particularly strong musk, and I hear a deep splash. I am wondering if this is a human female, or a horse using the stall.
Out comes what appears to be a sassy black female in a bright red, straight haired wig.
She's got the long nails, and a animal print purse.
I am caught off guard. I look at her and say "I dig the hair."
With a hmpf, this tall woman turns her high heels and struts out the door.
Then I mentally regroup and I realize what I had just seen.
I complain to the lesbian employee who is working at the Dr.s office and I told her that I felt very intimidated in the bathroom just now,
She tells me there is nothing we can do about it and she ends the conversation.
Basically what my son and I experienced was a cock in a frock who now, legally, has the right to enter a closed women's bathroom at any time. His intention absolutely was to intimidate.
On top of that he can put on a skirt and demand that I let my guard down.
Why the fuck is he dressed in drag, strutting around a pediatrician's office? If he were sincerely transitioning, he would dress like a woman to blend, and not like a drag-queen, mid-day.
Because those of us who have female bodies, generally don't want to attract male attention, especially when we are trying to get to a doctor's office. We've been hit on, relentlessly all our lives, and we don't want problems ... that is why I was intimidated.
I am not afraid of a trans woman, as an entity. I know that a handful of them are sincere. Literally ... a handful. Some of these women were afraid to go into men's bathrooms because they have passed as women, even before transitioning. That was the fight.
The last thing they are going to do, is strut their shit mid-day, because they have the same fears that women do.
