Originally Posted by
StoneByStone
I've honestly never heard a transgender person ask someone how many genders there are. All they care about is if someone, especially a person in a position of power, believes that LGBT folk have the same rights as the rest of us.
It's true they usually only do it to people they think will disagree, then get loud and upset about their answer if it isn't what they want to hear. That this person walked away afterward and had to be "detained" by the former VP tells me that they heard at least a little of what they wanted to hear.
However the idea that all transgender folk are perfect and never try to catch people out is absurd. Although I know them as just people in my family, they are just as imperfect, loud, and political as everybody else.
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