Right now daily but in 2 weeks she’s moving to college sniffles.
My next door neighbor transitioned a few years ago. So I see her almost every day. I also work in a courthouse in a large suburb in the DC/Metro area. So likely I’m seeing them all the time. I’ve also had a few trans clients where it becomes an issue with the jail. So I probably routinely see trans folks more than others.
Are you saying that you don’t know if you have seen any, or that you definitely can say that you have never met a trans-gendered person?
This brought to mind a scene from Two and a Half Men.
Alan asks Kandi “When was the last time you saw a dentist?” and she replies with exasperation “Alan, I see people all the time. I don’t ask what they do.”
I don’t ask, they don’t tell, I don’t care.
I see them every day, and I find the experience no more remarkable than when I see Gingers or left-handed people.
Comparing transgendered people to gingers is insulting to transgendered people.:mad:
I would assume daily, give or take. I pay only enough attention to most people I pass on the street to avoid bumping into them.
Not knowing your company’s policies, culture, or IT capabilities but coming from an IT background, I don’t see why the company can’t create a new email address for the users with the preferred first name. Adding email addresses and making a new one a primary can be done in Exchange. At my work, I have at least 3, including first.lastname@company.com, firlast@company.com, and last@company.com (that one I set up for myself and it’s the first syllable of my last name).
I don’t know of any transgendered people who I see daily. I do have a Facebook friend who is but I have only seen Kat in person a few times. I did enjoy (not sure if that’s quite the right word) watching Kat’s journey on their Facebook page, discovering themself, graduating from a master’s program, and other significant life events.
Whenever I go on Facebook. A good friend of ours IRL is on my friends list there.
Daily? All the ones I know of at work have left since the regime change last year but there are a couple others I cross paths with at least weekly. And possibly some I don’t know are transgender.
One of my best friends. I text with her all the time, and we both work for the same company.
My pronouns are he/him or they/them. It says so in my work email sig and a few other places. And I introduce myself that way in some work meetings. At the last three conferences I attended, my name badge said so too. But that’s no indication I’m trans – I happen not to be.
I work pretty closely with one person who’s a transman and have had several other trans friends or co-workers I see more or less frequently. And I’m active in LGBTQ+ circles. So, it’s almost daily for me, for people whom I know are trans. Any time I’m around dozens of people, though, I’m probably seeing at least one person who’s trans without my knowing it.
If I’ve seen any I don’t know it. All dozen people I personally know I’m quite sure aren’t, and of the people I’ve seen in passing on the street none of them were carrying a “I’m in a super-conservative state and want to be harassed” sign.
Not sure what you mean by that. I very much doubt any transgendered person is carrying an ‘I want to be harassed’ sign, except possibly at certain kinds of parties going in for detailed types of consent.
If you mean that you think anyone who looks obviously transgendered should expect to be harassed for walking down the street, that’s nasty. And I very much doubt it’s true for all the streets in any state, conservative or not.
And if you think everybody who’s transgendered is obviously so, that isn’t true.
If you only mean that you suspect transgendered people in your particular area are really good at hiding it, and have good reason to hide it, that might be true.
I suspect that the average transgendered person in my area would not feel it necessary or perhaps even wise to broadcast it, and a lack of broadcasting would be all it would take for me not to notice transgenderism in passing.
Also implied with the ‘sign’ example is that their ‘broadcast’ would have to be pretty blatant for me to notice in passing. I freely concede that I’m far from the most observant bloke around, and I have very little reason to try and do a Sherlock Scan on the people I walk past in daily life. So there could be transgendered people that I’ve seen in passing, who failed to meet the requisite criteria of “person who punched me in the face and shouted ‘I’m transgender, you asshole!’” before going on their way.
And thus, to my knowledge I have never seen a transgender person. Or a gay person either, for that matter. I may have have seen some, but I don’t know it.
Let’s just say the culture is, ‘Tell them to put on their headset, get in the queue and shut up.’ When it was bought and merged into the new company we had to figure out on our own how to get our paystubs. So if someone asked for a new email they likely would have been told it’s not necessary. /off-topic over/
I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen a couple at the grocery store.
I certainly didn’t ask. So it’s just my own opinion.
A coworker came out as a cross dresser in the mid 90’s. AFAIK he didn’t identify as Trans. It varied from day to day. Sometimes he dressed as a guy and other days as a woman.
I do a LARP where one player is transgendered.
Otherwise I might just randomly run into one or two. I ran into a pair in the men’s bathroom of a mall. (I was on the way to the doctor around 3 PM and unfortunately badly needed to go. #2.) When I walked in I saw two people who “appeared to be women” (that’s literally what my brain was saying to me) and were touching each other’s faces. (That little circuit in my brain that almost everyone has that lets me determine someone’s gender immediately was not sure but was thinking “female”.)
Women sometimes go into the men’s bathroom, because there’s an equal number of spaces in both, but women for biological reasons need to go more often and for longer… and that only happens if a mall is crowded. It was 3 PM and the mall was practically empty. They saw my expression and explained they were female-to-male transgendered. There was no drama at all. Once we all understood the situation there was no need for any awkwardness. I went into the stall to do my business and they left while I was there.
But a little later I saw them, outside the bathroom, being confronted by a security guard. He was upset that “women” had been in the men’s bathroom, which IMO makes him objectively wrong. They, in turn, were shouting back at him, and unfortunately it sounded like overly emotional stuff (“You don’t know how it feels…”). I think quoting legalese would have been more effective. I had to hurry to the doctor and so I don’t know what happened. I hope the guard got retraining.
I don’t know. I don’t really care.
How often do I see transgendered people? On TV, all the time. In person, practically never, which is sad. Like most LGBTQ people I strongly support their rights. But I am comforted by the fact, that now in America, it is the dawn of a new age for all these once controversial issues.