(April 15, 2016 at 2:10 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I'm an old man now and this is all rather new to me. But I never had a bad experience with a trans, just made me seem a bit uncomfortable because I'm unused to it.
Tell you what, growing up I never particularly liked them. I always was as prejudiced as my generation ultimately was, but I never in my wildest dreams thought to deny them any rights other people had. Even now I don't understand them or gays for that matter. Doesn't change the fact though that me not understanding is reason for discrimination.
I have to add, I grew up in the post '68 environment, but in a mildly conservative one, where people laughed and pointed at people they didn't understand, but never thought on actively denying them anything.