"So I'm just supposed to let a person who looks like a man in a dress go into the women's bathroom??"

Yes literally yes. It blows my mind that people still do not understand this. There are zero instances of a person doing this with criminal malicious intent. Public bathrooms are for the public. That means even sharing it with people whose exact shape, size, and color of their genitals could be a mystery to you. You are not the crotch police.

Don't like that? Then fucking pee at home.

did i already tell you my story of pretending i knew a trans lady so she could go into the bathroom with me while we talked because there were Karens everywhere and she looked nervous going in? she was older too and i totally felt that in my bones as being Dx autistic at 50. she looked like she was still trying to find her style and feel comfortable in her own skin.

so i locked my arm with hers, we went did our thing, chatted a bit, she thanked me profusely & we went our ways… 1/2

@Lana

have never seen her again but been thinking a lot about her. i hope she is ok. i hope she is thriving, you know?

and i've been thinking recently: you know how Planned Parenthood had chaperones for their abortion clinics?

we're gonna need to have something like a pin or a band or something to show trans folk we'll chaperone them to a bathroom or a dressing room in a store, whatever.

we're gonna need bathroom liberation squads. 2/2

@Lana

@blogdiva @Lana I wanted to do something like that a while back, I know it isn’t much my smartwatch band is a rainbow (so is my phone strap). Would trans colors be more helpful?

Sorry in advance if this is offensive (you can let me know)

@farah @blogdiva @Lana the colors are helpful because the danger with these things is always that they wind up being adopted only by the people who are interested in performative self-congratulation and not in actually taking action to intervene, which puts people in danger by promising safety that does not materialize. >

@farah @blogdiva @Lana

wearing the colors comes at a social cost because bystanders can tell what it signals support for, so in the safety assessment of someone trying to decide who to trust, it's more likely to be real.

@farah @blogdiva @Lana oh. well. that got styled as a blockquote, heh. computers.
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@farah @blogdiva
My preferred accessory to signal that I'm willing to take public actions in support of marginalized people against right-wing talking points: a covid mask. Could even get a sheet of trans stickers to slap on there if you want to be extra clear. But yeah, trans people have some of the highest rates of long covid https://longcovidjustice.org/trans/
Long COVID is a trans issue – Long COVID Justice