locke besse
1 min readSep 27, 2022

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I agree with you 100% on this one. Being a postop, passable trans woman myself, I use all private women’s spaces and don’t get so much as a second glance. I am a woman, not a special class of woman. I remember growing up in Florida in the 60s when we thought it was fine to have separate facilities for people of color and white people. Being originally from the north, it perplexed me as to why there would be water fountains, luncheon counters, and bathrooms labeled for one race or the other. It made no sense to me. At that time separate but equal was the standard of society. We long ago realized that this “compassionate“ approach to race relations just excluded a portion of our society from full inclusion and legitimized racism. People are now proposing the same thing for trans people as well. It’s just another form of bigotry hidden in a veneer of “reasonableness“. It didn’t work then; it won’t work now. And it is just as abhorrent and misguided.

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locke besse
locke besse

Written by locke besse

Eclectic trans woman, terminally curious. Too many degrees. Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Attract stray puppies and social outcasts

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