An excerpt from Samantha Allen’s Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States.
I was in Texas, I was on my way to get a vagina.
,” was so hell-bent on getting SB 3 passed that he and Gov. Greg Abbott forced the state legislature to return to Austin for a special summer session after it failed to pass a similar bathroom bill during the traditional legislative calendar.— to force women like me to use the men’s room. Even though I’ve never had a problem in a bathroom, the fear of assault is always on my mind, especially in states where bills like SB 3 are being discussed on local news and conservative talk radio stations. As a transgender person, you never know when some self-appointed potty vigilante is going to spot you andEarly on in my transition, when I was less confident in my appearance than I am now, figuring out where to go to the bathroom on a long road trip felt like planning a bank robbery.
I think about it sometimes while I’m peeing: How bizarre it is that some people are afraid of me — or at least theof me, a caricature that they’ve been fed through propaganda. I don’t feel like the “beginning of the end” of anything.I think about it sometimes while I’m peeing: How bizarre it is that some people are afraid of me — or at least the idea of me, a caricature that they’ve been fed through propaganda.
But when I remember that I’m not just a pawn on a political chessboard but a flesh-and-blood human being, the prevalence of bills like SB 3 — and the persistence of politicians like Patrick who try to pass them — feels surreal, and far from the easy future I once anticipated. As Billy and I walk up the tree-lined sidewalk that leads to the south steps of the Capitol, volunteers from half a dozen advocacy groups are handing out signs and — more important, given the hundred-degree weather — bottled water.
Cisgender reporters are often so fascinated by the mere existence of transgender people that they treat us more like exotic zoo animals than human beings. They ask boilerplate questions like “When did you know?” or “How does it feel?” or the ever-popular but remarkably invasive “Do you want the surgery?” When I interview other transgender people, I treat them like equals, not science experiments. So when I got Jess on the phone, we skipped past the sensationalizing questions and just talked.
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