My dad just came into the room where I’m working and said:

“There’s a new person at work…He’s a she. I mean… She is a she… Now. We’re supposed to call her that now.”

[long pause]

“Anyway… I don’t care about this gender, pronoun, stuff. It’s not my business. All that matters is that she’s very helpful.”

[dad pauses thoughtfully]

“She’s a good colleague… Don’t understand all this fuss about people’s gender these days. She works hard and is always friendly. This media malarkey… About what’s in their pants. Don’t make sense to me.”

“These ‘journalists’ should spend a day with her and see the trans people are good and honest regular folk.”

Based dad???????????

@yassie_j Reminds me of this old carpenter I used to work with. Somehow one day on the job we started talking about trans people and I thought he was about to say something SUPER transphobic. But instead he got quiet for a second and then laughed, "But, it's the 21st century, you can be whoever you wanna be" and that was that. Better attitude than many people my age!