OK. As a middle aged white male, I used to harbour the delusion that there really is not a lot of such discrimination in the real world.
Then my eldest "came out" as trans. I had no issue with that myself, but bloody hell a whole lot of other people did. That journey (still ongoing) opened my eyes to the simple fact that the scale of bigotted crap that gets wheeled about is very real. And just a bit scary. Some parents in her (now him) school mounted a campaign to have him ejected from the school because other children might get infected with "da ghey".
This rot goes further that one might think. I was talking to my ex-wifes boss about an unrelated matter and mentioned my eldest's transition in passing. Turns out she has been concealing it from her colleagues due to shame.
Before, I would have said that kind of rubbish doesn't really happen. But afterwards...bloody hell it absolutely does.
Then my eldest "came out" as trans. I had no issue with that myself, but bloody hell a whole lot of other people did. That journey (still ongoing) opened my eyes to the simple fact that the scale of bigotted crap that gets wheeled about is very real. And just a bit scary. Some parents in her (now him) school mounted a campaign to have him ejected from the school because other children might get infected with "da ghey".
This rot goes further that one might think. I was talking to my ex-wifes boss about an unrelated matter and mentioned my eldest's transition in passing. Turns out she has been concealing it from her colleagues due to shame.
Before, I would have said that kind of rubbish doesn't really happen. But afterwards...bloody hell it absolutely does.
