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Found this on another board. TERB is a tolerant bunch, so what should she/he do?
My partner was kicked out of a department store for being trans.
My partner is a tg butch dyke. S/he is not comfortable with either pronoun, but will respond to either "he" or "she". She doesn't expect people use "zee", but considers himself 3rd gender. A hard butch dyke. Bathrooms, dressing rooms, and shopping is difficult. One time, she was kicked out of the women's bathroom at Carnegie Hall by security and escorted off the property. Normally, when faced with a choice she prefers men's bathrooms, because she gets fewer stares.
Today he was shopping for a suit. At 26, he is finally graduating from college (after having to drop out of a famous rural Texas University due to homophobia on campus.) The dressing rooms at the Century 21 department store in Manhattan were all separate stall. But when my partner asked for a ticket to try on her suit, they called security. They said that it would "embarrass" their male clientele to see my partner walk into the dressing room on the floor. Eventually, they said that she could go to a different floor and try on suits in a women's dressing room. The friend he was with took photos of the employees and recorded their names.
Found this on another board. TERB is a tolerant bunch, so what should she/he do?
My partner was kicked out of a department store for being trans.
My partner is a tg butch dyke. S/he is not comfortable with either pronoun, but will respond to either "he" or "she". She doesn't expect people use "zee", but considers himself 3rd gender. A hard butch dyke. Bathrooms, dressing rooms, and shopping is difficult. One time, she was kicked out of the women's bathroom at Carnegie Hall by security and escorted off the property. Normally, when faced with a choice she prefers men's bathrooms, because she gets fewer stares.
Today he was shopping for a suit. At 26, he is finally graduating from college (after having to drop out of a famous rural Texas University due to homophobia on campus.) The dressing rooms at the Century 21 department store in Manhattan were all separate stall. But when my partner asked for a ticket to try on her suit, they called security. They said that it would "embarrass" their male clientele to see my partner walk into the dressing room on the floor. Eventually, they said that she could go to a different floor and try on suits in a women's dressing room. The friend he was with took photos of the employees and recorded their names.
