Tony Santamaria

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Retired progressive Spanish teacher traveling the world. LGBTQ advocate.

Just had a guy and his two kids in the shop, the oldest was 4 1/2, she told me so proudly ... She had a beautiful lavender cardigan on and matching socks ... I told her I loved that colour, we had a little chat about purple and all the purple things we have ... Then she asked me "are you a girl?" ... I looked at her dad and said can I let her know, he said yes

I crouched down to her level and said "that's a nice question you asked" ... and then said "I was born a boy, yuck, and for many reasons I always felt like a girl" ... Her eyes lit up, and I got a huge hugz and she whispered in my ear, "you're a girl"

I am more than likely the first trans person she has met, I made her feel comfortable and listened to ... one at a time ... Her dad thanked me for being kind.

Never dismiss a childs question, you might feel they are abrupt, they are not, they just want to know

First impression are important

Hugz & xXx

@Girlonavespa Was there day before yesterday. Sevilla, especially during Semana Santa, it's gorgeous!
@chema what!?

Three 1-bedroom below-market rate inclusionary ownership units went on sale today at the Bristol, the new residential development on Yerba Buena Island here in San Francisco.

The units are small, one-bedroom apartments, between 886 and 936 sq. ft. in size.

Maximum eligible household income is between 89% and 134% area median income (AMI), with the sale price being between $153,064 and $509,860.

That all sounds reasonable. Until you consider that HOA fees are no less than $1,520 per month.

That means that at 89% AMI level, that household will be spending about 21% of the gross annual income just on HOA fees. Now add mortgage, insurance, property taxes, etc.

SMH

@paul I'm so glad I dumped Twitter a while ago.
@drvolts the GOP has figured out that any stupid idea they come up with will be talked about ad nauseum and will be normalized. We need to be smarter than that.
Nobody is “grooming” children to be gay or trans, but a lot of people are grooming boys to be mass shooters.
@georgetakei They're clearly not helping anyone at all except the wealthiest Americans.